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Today’s Headlines

8:34 AM PST on December 11, 2019

    • Car-free streets will soon be the norm (CityLab)
    • Bicycles could save the world (Quartz)
    • Lyft says it will stop accepting cash in bike-share equity program (SF Examiner)
    • Elon Musk wants to sell armored vehicles (Medium)
    • Caltrans makes plans to adapt to climate change (Capital Public Radio)
    • Mapping out California transportation agency responsibilities (Medium)
    • Commuter rail in Southern California is "ripe for innovation" (Government Technology)
    • NYC airport policy blames bicyclists for ruining drivers' lives (Streetsblog NYC)
    • San Diego wants to scrap residential density limits (Archinect)
    • Seattle will lower speed limits to reduce traffic deaths (The Seattle Times)

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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