Today’s Headlines

8:54 AM PDT on August 1, 2017

Forget electric cars: For clean air, switch to bikes (Guardian)
City Hall needs to be a better champion for safe streets (LA Times)
Brown signs bill extending CEQA exemption for bike lanes (LA Times)
To reduce emissions, denser housing is a necessity (Planetizen)
No, no, no, no: Parking! Traffic! says Berkeley neighborhood to housing proposal (Berkeleyside)
The anti-gentrification movement in California (Guardian)
Berkeley makes move to ban discrimination against low-income renters (East Bay Times)
El Cerrito develops an affordable housing strategy (East Bay Times)
How BART deals with homeless using its system (East Bay Times)
Your risk of getting asthma changes with your zip code (CityLab)
A guide: Potential impacts of autonomous vehicles (Planetizen)

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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