Today’s Headlines

• 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