Today’s Headlines

8:44 AM PDT on June 14, 2017

BART tests new smart bike locks (Tech Crunch)
L.A. mayor says: Increase capacity on the freeway with a monorail (L.A. Times)
L.A. and Long Beach ports pledge to go green (Medium)
Data on Uber, Lyft in S.F. released: They drive at least a fifth of all the miles driven (SFCTA)
Clean transport companies want cap-and-trade extended (American Shipper)
Collecting neighborhood smog data (Daily News)
Legislators reach budget deal (L.A. Times)
Google campus plan keeps growing (Mercury News)
Oslo tried banning cars in its center, then tried banning parking; backlash (Guardian)

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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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