• Have you read the IPCC report on climate change yet?
• CARB to hold hearing on standards for zero-emission vehicles (Union of Concerned Scientists)
• Build a seawall? Reinforce the cliffs? Relocate the tracks? Officials struggle to find solution for trainline threatened by crumbling cliffs at Del Mar (E&E)
• PG&E pledges to produce zero carbon, and will keep using gas (AP)
• Europe to ban fossil-fueled cars (Reuters)
• San Francisco is giving out e-bikes to be used for deliveries (Electrek)
• The quietly transformative Omnibike bill (CalBike)
• The revolt of the pedestrians (Slate)
• In Stanislaus this July, transit will be free (Riverbank News)
• BART will cut fares 50 percent in September to celebrate its 50th anniversary (SF Chronicle)
• Less parking could mean more housing (PEW)
• Cops protected executive who killed teen with his car (LA Times)

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• Climate change is coming fast (IPCC)
• Coastal cities are already sinking (Grist)
• The great Salt Lake is drying up, and an ecological disaster awaits (NY Times)
• Why is California investing in natural gas? (The Guardian)
• Automakers side with California in lawsuit over regulating emissions (Sacramento Bee, The Hill)
• Results from yesterday’s election (CalMatters)
• Is LA serious about safer streets? (LA Times)
• Pedestrian fatalities hit 4-decade high, CA at the top (KTLA)
• Study: Cities may be dangerous, but they’re safer than rural areas (Bloomberg)
• Oh, for the glorious days when L.A. planned to make the city one big freeway (LA Times)
• Building an open data standard to improve transit operations: wonky and important (Mass Transit)
• Bill Fulton updated his book, Planning in California – and some things haven’t changed (CP&DR)
• Diplomacy via bamboo bikes (Cycling Tips)
• Google gets closer to launching downtown transit village in San Jose (Mercury News)

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• Climate change is an existential threat (IPCC)
• Greenhouse gas emissions can be lowered, here’s a blueprint (Science Daily)
• CARB’s climate plan is weak (LA Times)
• Car tires produce way more particle pollution than modern car exhausts (The Guardian)
• NHTSA asks: should U.S. require speed limiting technology in cars? (Is the Pope Catholic?) (Planetizen)
• Bus drivers have a hard job (Washington Post)
• Caltrans to add bike lanes, improve signals along PCH (OC Register)
• The more e-bikes are seen, the more e-bikes will be ridden (Transfers Magazine)
• That San Francisco taxi may not have a driver (Route Fifty)
• New plans for Valley Link Rail project (GoldRushCam)
• San Diego to get federal grant to replace an old rail bridge (Mass Transit)
• NCTD and Coastal Commission are not working well together on the Del Mar bluffs (RT&S)
• Spain considers a law to define mobility as a right (Eltis)

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