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9:02 AM PDT on October 19, 2015

    • We're in trouble this winter, and here's a preview (NY Times) (Guardian)(ABC News)
    • Not everyone is stuck in traffic: total amount of time spent traveling, per capita, has decreased in U.S. (Transportationist)
    • Cell phone data is tracking traffic (Fortune)
    • Chinese companies readying bids for work on CA high speed rail (Business Insider)
    • But Palo Alto says: whoa, there, young fella (CA High Speed Rail Blog)
    • Sacramento is still struggling to find an agreement on transportation funding (LA Times)
    • House proposes six-year federal transportation bill, mostly to highways (The Hill)
    • All the unintended consequences of less driving by millenials (Salon)
    • Lawmakers seek investigation of Chevron's failure to disclose climate change data(LA Times)
    • Oakland proposes eliminating parking requirements for downtown developments (East Bay Express)
    • Berkeley surveys public for ideas on safety and traffic flow in downtown (InsideBayArea)

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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