Today’s Headlines

8:49 AM PDT on June 7, 2017

E-bikes could turn drivers into bike commuters (Curbed)
Activists say Uber needs to change its ways if it wants to move to Oakland (East Bay Times)
San Jose: I know, I know! Let's make the freeway wider! That will solve our problems! (Mercury News)
Roadblocks on the way to renewing cap-and-trade (LA Times)
Oregon still thinking about taxing bikes (NextCity)
“Super commutes” are on the rise (Governing)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF

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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