Today’s Headlines

8:42 AM PDT on June 20, 2017

How walkable is LA? (Curbed)
Help us find the right word for a street everyone can use (People for Bikes)
To increase bicycling, don't follow Australia's example (Bicycle Network)
Rogue bike share could do more harm than good (CityLab)
Still fighting over that 710 freeway tunnel (San Gabriel Valley Tribune)
LOL: Innovative tech company accidentally invents a bus (Pedestrian, NY Magazine)
- But it's not really funny—those Lyft shuttles are undermining public transit for everyone else (Slate)
CA pushes to expand clean energy policies (Silicon Beat)
- and many of those green energy jobs are going to LA County (Daily News)
Berkeley is fighting over zucchini plants instead of adding housing (Slate)

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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