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8:17 AM PDT on August 19, 2021

    • The climate gap in the Eastern Coachella Valley is extreme (ProPublica)
    • Electric vehicles won't save us - but electric bicycles could (Propmodo)
    • Santa Monica plans a (temporary) car-free Main Street (City of Santa Monica)
    • A 3-D printed bike lane designed to hang under bridges? (Fast Company)
    • California farmworkers face extreme health risks from heat, fires - with little regulatory protection (Sacrament Bee)
    • It's a vague and confusing funding landscape for CA high speed rail (LA Times)
    • Self-driving cars are still a long, long way off (Jalopnik)
    • Did losing the commute make people more productive? (Chicago Booth Review)
    • MIT weighs in on Great Highway debate: Opening it back up to cars is a mistake (SF Examiner)
    • Feds plan to enforce higher fines on automakers who miss fuel efficiency targets (Reuters)

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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