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Today’s Headlines

8:21 AM PDT on September 28, 2016

    • Dangerous configuration proliferates: another bike lane stuck between two right-turn lanes (Systemic Failure)
    • Report: Crash fatalities are rising faster than vehicle miles traveled (State Smart Transportation Initiative)
    • What biking across the country taught me about U.S. transportation challenges (Mobility Lab)
    • UCLA bus fleet goes all-electric (UCLA)
    • California and Massachusetts are the most energy-efficient states (San Diego Union Tribune)
    • Report: lack of housing will hold back California's economic growth (LA Times)
    • Brown signs bills easing restrictions on granny units and promoting affordable housing (East Bay Times)
    • How small forests could save the planet (Science)

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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