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9:54 AM PDT on July 1, 2015

    • Strategic Growth Council confirms recipients of Affordable Housing and Sustainable Communities grants (CP&DR)  (see Streetsblog's earlier coverage here)
    • California Air Resources Board reports falling greenhouse gas emissions in the state (SF Chronicle)
    • Streetfilms: The NY Times Magazine “Ethicist” discusses the ethics of urban transportation (StreetFilms)
    • Ways to move more people across the bottleneck of the San Francisco Bay (SPUR)
    • San Francisco ferry and cable car fares, bridge tolls to rise on July 1 (San Francisco Examiner)
    • Intercity Rail Capital Program awards $224 million in grants for transit:
      • San Diego gets some money for BRT, trolleys (KPBS)
      • Metrolink, Metro, Antelope Valley Transit Authority, and OCTA get some too (MyNewsLA)
      • The Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit Authority also benefits (Press Democrat)
    • Consumer Watchdog issues report on gas price manipulation by CA refiners (LA Times)

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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