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Today’s Headlines

8:22 AM PDT on September 16, 2016

    • Happy Park(ing) Day!
    • Pleasanton City Council approves reconfiguration to intersection where bicyclist was killed (East Bay Times)
    • Can L.A. Get 100,000 cars off the road in five years? (Curbed LA)
    • The intersection of transit and housing: BART and VTA (Rooflines)
    • Price of success? It can be hard to find a Citi Bike at rush hour (Wall Street Journal)
    • Correctly measuring congestion costs can lead to better policy (Torontoist)
    • Use parking money for transit, not more parking (The Star)
    • The racial justice flaws in California's climate change bill (CityLab)
    • The effect of ten years of cap-and-trade (Gov Tech)

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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