Today’s Headlines

4:10 PM PST on November 18, 2016

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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)

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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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