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Wednesday’s Headlines

Every city needs a walkability study; Improving bike safety with a simple law change; Lawsuit threatens climate disclosure law; More

8:42 AM PST on January 31, 2024

  • Every city needs a walkability study (Common Edge)
  • New California law helps change bike infrastructure without lifting a finger (BikeMag)
  • Construction at People's Park is endangering pedestrian and bicycle movement (Daily Cal)
  • Lawsuit threatens to delay climate disclosure law (ClimateWire)
  • Carbon neutrality on sale - the game is afoot (Energy at Haas)
  • Report: Governor Newsom appointed mostly white people last year (2Urban Girls)
  • Is Fresno done growing? (GV Wire)
  • San Jose's new housing element - supporting 62K new homes - finally approved (Mercury News)

Find 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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