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Today’s Headlines

6:00 AM PDT on July 31, 2015

    • LA's plan to bring car-share to the poor (CityLab)
    • Analyzing Fresno's drop in bus ridership (Stop and Move)
    • Santa Monica will begin testing bike share in August (Santa Monica Lookout)
    • Monterey considering local transportation sales tax (Monterey County Weekly)
    • DMV attempts a crackdown on misuse of disability placards (LA Times)
    • Congress approves stopgap bill for highway funding (LA Times)
    • Eco-friendly housing being developed in Central Valley (NPR)
    • BMW has a plan to prevent its electric cars from overwhelming the power grid (CityLab)

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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