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The Monday News Roundup

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Here’s the news that caught our eye this week:

– An attempt to cap the ongoing oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has failed. Meanwhile the government’s lack of increased regulation on other drilling projects is under fire, and a ban on drilling off the west coast is under consideration.

– In Portland, one woman’s efforts have succeeded in preventing trucks from idling for hours outside her low-income apartment building.

– Remember the kids who make scraper bikes in Oakland? There’s a beautiful and inspiring new film about them.

– The ethanol lobby is questioning an auto industry study that has found that gas containing ethanol damages car engines.

– San Francisco has its first green bike lane.

– Malmö, Sweden is naming and plotting its off-road bike paths so they can be navigated by GPS.

– Change is coming to the most unlikely places: Des Moines is moving ahead with strategies to reduce car use.

– One reason change comes so slowly is that road builders follow an antiquated set of car-oriented design standards. Here’s one attempt to rewrite them for walkability and bicycling.

– A new study explores ways that the U.S. can emulate the greater bicycle and pedestrian safety records of some European cities.

– Need some uplifting reading? Check out the Stolen Bike Registry’s stories of recovered bicycles, some years after they went missing.

– Budapest, Hungary has the biggest Critical Mass in the world, and it was on Earth Day this year. Check out the video.

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