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8:39 AM PDT on September 18, 2017

    • Road diet, bike lanes planned in San Jose (Mercury News)
    • Dockless bike-share debuts in San Diego (Fox5)
    • The CA legislative session ends, and plenty got done that will affect your life (Sacramento Bee)
    • Bigger rebates for EVs hits a bump (East Bay Times)
    • New CA bill would require driver's ed (Mercury News)
    • Proposed Bay Bridge toll hike (VB Profiles) could bring “windfall” to Marin (Marin IJ)
    • Houston bike-share offers bikes to people who lost cars in flooding (Fast Company,  Houston Chronicle)
    • Amazon's “competition” for its HQ location is a way to extort major public subsidies (City Commentary)
      • Why no city should want Amazon (Reuters)
      • Tech companies think they owe nothing to the American city (LA Times)
    • Architecture critic John King takes a look at the new Transbay Transit Center—with awesome graphics (SF Chronicle)

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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