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Today’s Headlines

8:14 AM PDT on June 17, 2019

    • San Rafael opens Grand Avenue bike-pedestrian bridge (Marin Independent Journal)
    • East Palo Alto gets a new pedestrian bridge too (Fox)
    • The problem with giving a dumb award: Some people want more, and this idea jeopardizes a long-promised bike connection (Marin Independent Journal)
    • Here's another dumb award, this one for some truly terrible bike infrastructure (Americas Transportation Awards)
    • In contrast, some beautiful bike projects to feast your eyes upon (Fast Company)
    • New BART cars to be built locally (ABC7)
    • LA Times grouses that cap-and-trade should not be used for clean water
    • Clean water is a fundamental right; long term solutions are needed (NRDC)
    • Instead of helping people directly, welfare funding goes to programs that preach at them--in particular black people (The Atlantic)

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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