Today’s Headlines

8:26 AM PST on March 7, 2017

San Diego's efforts would make small but measurable difference in greenhouse gas emissions (San Diego Union Tribune)
Is Caltrain electrification doomed by politics, confusion with high speed rail? (NY Times)
Bike East Bay opens nominations for its Bike-Friendly Business Awards (Hoodline)
Environmental groups say California's climate change programs haven't helped them (KUNC)
To meet climate change goals, California has to build a lot more dense housing, and people have to stop driving so much (LA Times)
High speed rail is ready to lay some track (Mercury News)
ICYMI: Proposed cuts to USEPA go deep (Washington Post)
Uber built a tool to help its drivers evade cops and to fake out potential passengers it doesn't like (SF Gate)
Shared streets for all ages: what needs to be considered (Streets.mn)
Funding for the 2020 Census is at risk, and that's not good (The Hill)
Driverless shuttles make their California debut in San Ramon (East Bay Times)

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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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