Today’s Headlines

8:55 AM PDT on July 26, 2019

Why you should care that fewer kids are riding bikes (Outside)
Trump administration dismisses CA/automaker agreement on efficiency standards as a PR stunt (Sacramento Bee, Transport Topics, Route Fifty)
With latest pedestrian deaths, SF cops back move to legalize automated speed enforcement (Examiner, CBS)
They got the railway built, but agencies, cities won't commit to the promised bike path along the SMART corridor (Marin Independent Journal)
Redlands Passenger Rail project launches (Highland News)
Housing shortages are not a new phenomenon: One way LA addressed the huge influx of new residents after WWII (Curbed)
Planners can help increase opportunity, equity (Planetizen)

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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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“We’re excited to see Senator Wiener continue his leadership on active transportation with SB 71, which makes permanent a bill he authored to exempt biking, walking, and public transit plans and projects from CEQA review,” said CalBike Policy Director Jared Sanchez.