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8:17 AM PDT on September 18, 2015

    • How California's sprawl got in the way of a strong climate bill (Grist)
    • US Reps say transit tax benefit should match parking benefit (The Hill)
    • Which bills will Jerry Brown sign? (Sacramento Bee)
    • Effects on bus riders of removing shelters, benches “unintentional” (it was the scruffy homeless people they meant to discomfit) (Orange County Register)
    • Future BART stations in Silicon Valley to include private development (Silicon Valley Business Journal)
    • Riverside County Transportation Commission will sue Moreno Valley over warehouse development (Press Enterprise)
    • Community weighs in on Telegraph Avenue priorities in Berkeley (Daily Cal)
    • SANDAG floats a transportation sales tax measure, but its Long Range Transportation Plan may prevent its passing (Voice of San Diego)
    • Scientists warn of dire effects of rising sea level on San Francisco Bay wetlands (Santa Cruz Sentinel)
    • DC solves “bus bunching” with low-cost technology (Mobility Lab)

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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