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8:32 AM PDT on July 15, 2020

    • Fight over Caltrain control and funding includes shutdown threat (SF Chronicle)
    • BART, Caltrain are both on the brink (SF Chronicle)
    • Fresno considers protected bike lanes from downtown to River Parkway (CV Wire)
    • Fifteen states agree to work together on making all heavy trucks electric (Smart Cities Dive, Transport Topics)
    • Electric bikes are enjoying a surge (Smart Cities World)
    • The 85th percentile rule is under increasing scrutiny (SSTI)
    • Biden's "climate plan" assumes dependency on cars (Forbes)
      • Which is no climate plan: cars are a mess (Wired)
    • German court says Tesla must stop making false claims about its "autonomous driving" capabilities (Reuters)
    • Another environmental protection under attack from Trump administration (Washington Post)

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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