Today’s Headlines

8:32 AM PST on November 27, 2019

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Skeptic wonders how bikes can become the preferred form of travel in San Francisco - where a lot of people already ride them (SF Chronicle)
South Pasadena passes citywide bike parking plan (South Pasadenan)
LA Metro's subway building is out of sight (ABC7)
Drastic changes are needed to fight climate change (Fresno Bee)
Preliminary data show CA transportation emissions fall a bit (EDF)
Sonoma County's Habitat for Humanity suspends home building (Press Democrat)
Amazon's "troubling impact" on warehouse towns (NY Times)
Cycling death in Escondido hit-and-run (CBS8)
Two pedestrians die in separate San Jose hit-and-runs (ABC7)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF

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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