Today’s Headlines

7:45 AM PST on November 3, 2015

More on proposed Bay Area regional planning merger (Planetizen)
Active transportation grant will help complete bike trail in San Luis Obispo (Tribune)
Why planning for biking and planning for walking are very different (Planetizen)
A new series on TOD in the Bay Area (San Francisco Business Journals)
Oil companies spent over $11 million to defeat S.B. 350 (Sacramento Bee)
Federal DOT creates online tool showing the links between health and transportation (Fast Lane)
Another proposal to give the Raiders a stadium in Oakland-- "without taxpayer financing" (San Diego Union Tribune)

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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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