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8:42 AM PST on December 19, 2019

    • Protected bike lanes bring more riders, fewer crashes even on nearby streets (Canadian Cycling Magazine)
    • Hey, drivers: a few tips on how not to hit people walking and biking (TreeHugger)
    • San Francisco removes parking to speed up buses. Waah! say some who don't take buses (SF Chronicle)
    • Banning cars speeds up buses, barely affects drivers (New York Post)
    • San Diego eliminates parking minimum for churches based on pew space - and allows them to build affordable housing on their parking lots (KPBS)
    • SF Supervisors oppose bill to increase housing, draw rebuke from Senator Wiener (Examiner)
    • The future of Berkeley's Telegraph Avenue is a shared street (Berkeleyside)

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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