Today’s Headlines

8:23 AM PDT on July 10, 2017

Ya think? Our leisurely lifestyle may be contributing to climate change (OC Register)
California continues to negotiate over what to do about it (Western Growers)
- ....complicated by Assemblymember's move to Congress (LA Times)
- There's a deadline looming (Santa Cruz Sentinel)
- and competing proposals (Carbon Pulse)
- Whatever deal is made, it won't go as far as France, which plans to ban sales of gas and diesel cars by 2040 (Guardian)
Foster youth get bike training (Bakersfield.com)
In Pasadena, bike repair comes to you (Pasadena Star-News)
Driver of two-ton truck found not at fault in collision with 10-year-old on a bike (Union Democrat)
Facebook plans a mixed-use campus in Menlo Park (Fortune)
This board game is about bike touring (Coloradoan)

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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