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8:17 AM PDT on July 31, 2019

    • How Oakland's bike plan addresses historic inequities (TransForm)
    • San Diego considers zoning change to encourage TOD (Times of San Diego)
    • Aw, come ON: FHWA believes optical-illusion crosswalks will cause "unsafe driving behavior." No, that wouldn't be the cause (SmartCitiesDive)
    • The deal between car companies and California (Vox)
    • The case against freeway expansion (Meeting of the Minds)
    • Berkeley banned gas in new homes; the rest of California should too (LA Times)
    • San Diego police enforce bike/ped safety, and local news gets it all wrong--even though they're only copying a press release (10news)
    • There's lots of opportunities in a large-scale rollout of electric buses (Governing)
    • A new bill to rein in private equity could be a big deal for cities (NextCity)

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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