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7:41 AM PST on February 26, 2018

    • First section of CV Link--bike/ped/golf cart path in Coachella Valley--opens (Patch)
    • Protected bike lanes may be coming to Lake Merritt in Oakland (SF Gate)
    • Glendale-Hyperion bridge to get protected bike lanes as part of retrofit (Curbed)
    • Community speaks up, so contractor reopens bike/ped link after claiming it wouldn't be possible (Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition)
    • Studies are clear: Uber, Lyft increase congestion (KPCC)
    • California transportation agencies get new leadership (Progressive Railroading)
    • Conversation with the housing activist who came up with SB 827 (Vox)
    • Former head of Caltrans pushes idea that a remote highway is the most important road project in Sacramento (Sacramento Bee)
    • LAX to move forward with public-private partnership to build tram (SCPR)
    • Breakdown: Where gas tax funds are being used in Northern California (Chicoer)
    • Oil companies spent record amounts lobbying CA legislators last year (LA Times)
    • Loving Wakanda's fantasy transit system (The Verge)

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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