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4:10 PM PST on November 18, 2016

    • Listen: Tamika Butler talks to The Bicycle Story
    • CiclaValley bikes Berkeley (CiclaValley)
    • Merced County, sued over long range plan, will improve its greenhouse gas reductions (Biological Diversity)
    • East Bay Times stirs “fears” of BRT in Oakland
    • Pedestrian deaths shockingly common in Coachella Valley (Desert Sun)
    • Building walls to keep pedestrians contained doesn't make you safer (Systemic Failure)
    • Feds create sound standard for electric cars to give pedestrians a chance to jump out of the way (Fast Lane)
    • Grade separation could create Menlo Park bike boulevard along Caltrain (Mercury News)
    • The problem with abandoning the Paris Agreement (The Atlantic)
    • Here's one way to increase available housing: tax empty units (Guardian)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF

Melanie Curry
@StreetsblogCal

Streetsblog California editor Melanie Curry has been thinking about transportation, and how to improve conditions for bicyclists, ever since commuting to school by bike long before bike lanes were a thing. She was Managing Editor at the East Bay Express, editor of Access Magazine for the University of California Transportation Center, and earned her Masters in City Planning from UC Berkeley.

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