Today’s Headlines
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9:02 AM PST on December 27, 2016
- Make the most of your new bike (Sacramento Area Bicycle Advocates)
- Biking rates keep increasing in San Francisco (SFist)
- San Benito County seeks comments on Hollister bike, pedestrian project (Benito Link)
- Sacramento applies for permission to be a testing ground for self-driving cars (Business Journals)
- Santa Maria approves affordable housing project with less parking and improved bike-ped access nearby (Santa Maria Times)
- Monterey jumps in to pass local ordinance restricting in-law units before more lenient state law takes effect (Monterey Herald)
- Calistoga considers incentives for affordable housing developers (Napa Valley Register)
- CA Apartment Association report suggests penalizing sprawl by connecting it to climate change (LA Times)
- CA won’t back down on climate change (NY Times)
- In London, truck drivers undergo sensitivity training by riding bikes on city streets (Road.cc)
- You will buy an electric bike (Huffington Post)
- So Cal Gas downplays newly discovered methane leak at Aliso Canyon (Daily News)
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