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8:34 AM PDT on August 12, 2019

    • Study: Pedal-assist e-bike riders get more exercise than regular-bike riders (Treehugger)
    • Bike-share and scooters are less appealing when the price per trip is high (Time)
    • Google Maps rolls out its "augmented reality" walking directions (Gizmodo)
    • There's a new boss in charge of San Francisco's Central Subway project (SF Examiner)
    • Trump administration killed a committee on autonomous vehicles and didn't tell its members (The Verge)
    • Environmental law update: States sue over federal standards rollback; Final draft released to White House; more (JD Supra)
    • Two autonomous delivery pilot programs are testing in California (Business Insider)

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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