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Today’s Headlines

9:00 AM PST on January 8, 2016

    • Governor Brown announces 2016 budget (NBC Los Angeles)  (ABC News)
      • ...which includes a proposed road repair charge per vehicle (KPCC)
    • Fremont's new BART station brings economic development (Route Fifty)
    • Exposing the hidden health effects of gentrification (Guardian)
    • High density housing making a walkable downtown San Diego (Wall Street Journal)
    • How does urban living affect obesity? (Science Daily)

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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