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    • Health benefits of cycling could save everybody money--not just cyclists (The Georgia Straight)
    • Economic benefits from the gas tax may be real, but let's not overstate them (CalMatters)
    • The unhelpful ways cities talk about bike helmets (CityLab)
    • Bakersfield to step up “pedestrian safety patrols” this weekend (Kern Golden Empire)
    • That's how to do it: Paris offers financial incentives for ditching your car (Bicycling)
    • Denied access to Uber, Lyft data, cities have to get creative (Wired)
    • Lyft to test self-driving cars in California (Future Structure)
    • New analysis says greenhouse gas emissions from cities is much higher than previously thought (National Geographic)
    • States must act on climate change (Bloomberg)
    • CA Assemblymember Mayes sues over wording of climate change ballot measure which would, yes, limit legislature's ability to fund climate change programs (Desert Sun)
    • Bay Area shorelines sinking, at risk of flooding (Mercury News)
    • Vacaville to hold a summit on transportation for seniors, disabled people (Daily Republic)
    • Lillias Campbell Davidson, founder of the first women's cycling organization, among women who finally get an obit in the NY Times
    • Crowded cities search for nature-based health solutions (Christian Science Monitor)

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