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8:50 AM PDT on August 2, 2017

    • Yet another way walking can reward you: with something to smile about (TreeHugger)
    • Cyclists and stop signs (Bicycle Retailer)
    • Equity and bike-share (KQED)
    • SF Market Street to ban private cars—one day (SF Gate)
    • 80 years of false claims that freeways would solve congestion, mapped (CNU)
    • Equity and Bus Rapid Transit (TheCityFix)
    • The top 100 highest-spending lobbyists in California (Sacramento Bee)
    • To solve affordable housing, some local control has got to go (LA Times)
    • Many UC Berkeley students can barely afford housing (Berkeleyside)
    • The roots of gentrification, mapped (Next City)
    • James Rojas: Planning should focus on place, not movement (Curating LA)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF

Melanie Curry
@StreetsblogCal

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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