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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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Melanie Curry@StreetsblogCal

Streetsblog California editor Melanie Curry has been thinking about transportation, and how to improve conditions for bicyclists, since her early days commuting by bike to UCLA long ago. She was Managing Editor at the East Bay Express, and edited Access Magazine for the University of California Transportation Center. She also earned her Masters in City Planning from UC Berkeley.

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