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9:18 AM PST on January 30, 2017

    • More about California's economy growing under climate change policies (Fox&Hounds)
    • Still building freeways in CA: Plans for Modesto highway bypass raise questions among residents (Modesto Bee)
    • Elon Musk's tunnel could make L.A.'s traffic worse (Transportist)
    • In Minnesota, one lawmaker thinks bicyclists should be required to train and obtain a permit to use bike lanes (Star Tribune) (Twin Cities Pioneer Press)
    • Another approach to autonomous vehicles: Slow and steady (The Mercury News)
    • No, sanctuary cities are not hotbeds of crime (Washington Post)
    • Open data matters, now more than ever (Next City)
    • Federal court rules against gerrymandering (The Nation)
    • Bye-bye bike racing? It's way too easy to cheat (CBS News)

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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