Today’s Headlines

8:40 AM PDT on July 6, 2017

Long-distance Amtrak trains—including the Coast Starlight—could get the axe (SF Chronicle)
- ….and so could climate change research (Daily News)
The connections between affordable housing and climate change (Sacramento Bee)
CA's cap-and-trade system: It's the cap that matters (Environmental Defense Fund)
Massacre: In CA, 35 people were killed in traffic over holiday weekend (San Diego Union Tribune)
Sacramento river will get a paved trail connection to Midtown (Sacramento Bee)
S.F. contemplates expansion of transit-only lanes “experiment” (NextCity)
Public transit's effect on real estate prices (Realtor.com)
When freedom's just another word for “get out of my way” (Frontier Group)
What have we sacrificed for transportation independence? (Strong Towns)
Some thoughts about revitalizing and gentrifying neighborhoods (Granola Shotgun)
Video: Awwww, puppy thinks he's pedaling that bike <3 (SB Nation)

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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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