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Today’s Headlines

10:01 AM PST on November 16, 2016

    • SF's Van Ness Avenue set for 3-year BRT construction; first, no more left-turn pockets (SFGate)
    • AAA predicts busiest Thanksgiving travel in nine years (Mercury News)
    • Kern County transit to be run by National Express Transit (Mass Transit)
    • USDOT awards $11M to UC Berkeley and San Francisco to reduce congestion (California Magazine)
    • That rise in traffic fatalities? Because apps (NY Times)
    • Why urban areas must champion efforts to mitigate climate change (New Times)
    • Six things city builders can learn from this election (Modacity)
    • NRDC's City Energy Project: Reducing energy and water use in 20 cities
    • The differences between capacity of roads and public transit (D Magazine)

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