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)
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