Today’s Headlines
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8:55 AM PST on November 5, 2015
- California’s high speed rail stations should be major downtown transit hubs (Fresno Bee)
- North Berkeley residents don’t want the dirty, noisy old bus on their street (Daily Cal)
- Old Bay Bridge pier implosion delayed a bit (Inside Bay Area)
- San Francisco approves transit fee on new development (Examiner)
- High speed rail costs are growing (LA Times)
- ICYMI: Time to stop arguing about climate change and do something about it (Sacramento Bee)
- New online tool helps assess transportation health impacts (Equipment World)
- How pedestrians can legally avoid traffic signals (Mike on Traffic)
- Liverpool tries out fast lanes for fast walkers (CityLab)
- Madrid considers a plan to ban cars in city center, provide free transit on days of heavy air pollution (CityLab)
- and Paris is thinking along similar lines (CityLab)
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