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7:59 AM PST on March 8, 2016

    • Politics are going to make the air in Southern California dirtier (LA Times)
    • Oil industry prepares to take down California climate change policies (CalMatters)
    • When will Berkeley fix its unsafe streets? (GJEL)
    • San Fernando Valley transportation summit finds support for BRT (CSUN Today)
    • BART director proposes fines for seat hoggers (SFGate)
    • New design for Transbay Transit Center unveiled (SF Examiner)
    • The case for making federal housing programs permanent (Planetizen)
    • A look at the park proposed for atop the Glendale freeway (Time Out Los Angeles)
    • How Lyft and Uber can help transit (Brookings)
    • The story of walking in the U.S., in one chart (Streetsmart)

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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