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8:22 AM PDT on May 19, 2021

    • The death and rebirth of bike highways (Cheddar News)
    • Kids work to earn bikes in West Oakland program (Local News Matters)
    • Berkeley struggles to figure out how to make a dangerous intersection safer (Berkeleyside)
    • BART's newest elevator attendant knows wheelchairs (BART)
    • Emeryville seniors celebrate approval of a crosswalk - after three years of advocacy (E'villeEye)
    • How to design an effective low-speed zone (The City Fix)
    • How parking destroys cities (The Atlantic)
    • Council rules Redlands Mall exempt from height and density standards (Redlands Daily Facts)
    • Judge orders city of Clovis to zone for affordable housing (Capital and Main)
    • Caltrans issues "notice to vacate" to homeless camp in National City (CBS8)
    • Truck driver shortage causes problems getting California lettuce to market (HortiDaily)
    • LAO pokes holes in Newsom's definition of "budget surplus" (CalMatters)

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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