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Today’s Headlines

9:08 AM PDT on June 4, 2015

    • Laguna Beach will keep its free weekend trolleys (OC Register)
    • Cartographer creates a new way to look at International Boulevard in Oakland (Inside Bay Area)
    • Systemic Failure doesn't like the new Caltrain bilevel commuter train design (Systemic Failure)
    • How L.A's data agreement with Waze can benefit the city (New Yorker)
    • San Francisco supervisors rejects building moratorium in the Mission (SF Weekly)  (Curbed)
    • Sacramento voters reject streetcar plan (Sacramento Bee)
    • More about bill to block bridge sidewalk tolls (Marin Independent Journal)
    • California Senate passes climate change legislation (San Jose Mercury News)
    • And (finally!) a bill that would raise the gas tax (The Hill)
    • California court hears case: Is cap-and-trade a tax? (Sacramento Bee)
    • US Rep for Turlock Jeff Dunham pushes feds to consider taking money from high speed rail for safety measures on Amtrak (Sierra Sun Times)
    • Portland bike activists want the League of American Bicyclists to downgrade the city's bike friendliness score (The Portland Mercury)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF

Melanie Curry

Streetsblog California editor Melanie Curry has been thinking about transportation, and how to improve conditions for bicyclists, since her early days commuting by bike to UCLA long ago. She was Managing Editor at the East Bay Express, and edited Access Magazine for the University of California Transportation Center. She also earned her Masters in City Planning from UC Berkeley.

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