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By Melanie Curry

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

Melanie Curry

Today's Headlines

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