Today’s Headlines
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7:47 AM PDT on August 23, 2017
- California’s climate problem is cars (Vox)
- Cars—and long commutes—are making it hard to cut emissions (Inside Climate News)
- A stupid car trick that endangers bicycle riders (OC Register)
- The dockless bike-share revolution (Alta)
- Bikes and autonomous vehicles are on a collision course (Clean Technica)
- The era of the “free” freeway may be coming to an end (Planetizen)
- Learning to drive to get away from street harassment (California Walks)
- Utrecht, in Holland, just opened the world’s largest bicycle parking garage (CBC)
- Oakland Bay Bridge’s old foundations about to be imploded (SF Chronicle)
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