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9:09 AM PST on March 7, 2016

    • L.A. Metro to get another top transit leader: McMillan moves back home from the FTA (Washington Post)
    • California looking for ways to connect transit, communities (Planetizen)
    • The California transportation projects whose funding is threatened (San Jose Mercury News)
    • Caltrans seeks input on statewide, long-range transportation plan (TI News Daily)
    • It's a mess, but we need high speed rail (LA Times)
    • More about San Diego's bike and pedestrian plan (Clean Technica)
    • How much time and money people save by using public transit (USA Today)

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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