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9:15 AM PST on February 8, 2016

    • Oil companies gave big money to Assemblymembers who opposed legislation to reduce gas use (San Jose Mercury News)
    • How much money candidates are collecting, and from whom (Sacramento Bee)
    • Ventura County urged to place transportation sales tax measure on ballot (VC Star)
    • Mendocino, having spent most of its state transportation funds on Willits bypass, feels the pinch on local transportation projects (Willits News)
    • Riverside: local leaders demand funding to fix roads (KESQ)  (Valley News)
    • Researchers respond to LA Times story about declining Metro ridership (METRANS blog)
    • Streetcar in Santa Ana could change everything (OC Register)
    • A year later, and neighbors of Exide plant are still waiting for cleanup (LA Times)
    • Post-redevelopment survey of developers: analysis of results (Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco)

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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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