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8:39 AM PDT on June 8, 2016

    • Employers are beginning to plan shuttles to SMART train (Petaluma 360)
    • Petaluma considers a road diet (Press Democrat)
    • CA Special Session needs a jump start (Bond Buyer)
    • California Transportation Commission still recruiting volunteers for pilot road charge program, especially rural drivers  (My MotherLode)
    • Builders get around CEQA with the ballot—but not necessarily for voters (NY Times)
    • Reframing California's density bonus (Better Institutions)
    • Nine Promise Zones announced (Next City)

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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