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8:05 AM PDT on May 10, 2017

    • In Santa Barbara, recognizing women who make biking better (Independent)
    • San Jose: Adobe supports its bike-commuting employees (Mercury News)
    • SCAG launches walk, bike safety campaign (Mass Transit)
    • New data on NY bike-share: who rides a bike instead of the bus? (CityLab)
    • Slower driving creates better cities (TheCityFix)
    • More than half the states have raised the gas tax in the past five years (Governing)
    • Who lives in subsidized housing? Not the poor (New York Times)
    • The real cause of gentrification: prohibiting new apartments where people want to live (Oakland Magazine)
    • Comey isn't the only one to go: U.S. Census director quits amid funding turmoil (Washington Post)
    • Oregon considers a tax on bikes (Bike Portland)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF

Melanie Curry
@StreetsblogCal

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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