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8:39 AM PDT on August 7, 2019

    • Cities that invest in bicycle infrastructure have better access to jobs (Route Fifty)
    • Uber, Lyft produce twice as much traffic as San Francisco estimated without company data (SF Examiner)
    • Highway death toll report (LA Times)
    • CA legislative committee on climate change is weak (The Real News)
    • CA's low carbon fuel standards can help increase adoption of electric vehicles (GreenBiz)
    • Only one official celebrating a new bus stop at Warriors arena in S.F. arrived via Muni (SF Examiner)
    • CA struggles with climate change, while some push for more sprawl (Bloomberg)
    • Highways get state funding:
    • Amazon brings autonomous delivery robot to Irvine, California (Transportation Topics)

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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