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8:25 AM PDT on July 16, 2020

    • Berkeley approves proposal to shift traffic stops away from police - details to be worked out (Fox, Forbes)
    • Report says interstate highways, especially in California, need heavy reinvestment (Escalon Times)
    • Upcoming CARB workshop: Reducing ghgs from ride-hail (JD Supra)
    • How Paris is becoming a more livable city: Less on-street parking, $ for cargo bikes, lower speed limits, more (The City Fix)
    • Study finds work from home will reduce driving, with "potentially dire consequences" for auto industry (Bloomberg)
    • Interview with Jan Gehl on designing cities (Planetizen)
    • People are mad (LA Times)
    • Yeah, it would be bad if Caltrain shut down (SF Chronicle)

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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