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Today’s Headlines

8:57 AM PDT on November 2, 2016

    • The ripple effect of California's cap and trade (Ecosystem Marketplace)
    • To cut driving, develop more densely in downtowns (CP&DR)
    • At noon today, watch Bay Bridge dismantling live on YouTube—slow, but live
    • Coachella may get $24.3 million for bike path—reporter asks locals: would you even use this thing? (Desert Sun)
    • Questions arise about safety precautions: site of fatal bus crash was a work zone (ABC News)
    • Does it even make sense to compare rail in L.A. with rail in S.F.? (Ethan Elkind)
    • Cycling can save lives, says the newspaper that slams bikeways (BikeBiz)
    • Empty lots have lots of potential (Berkeley News)
    • Book review: Rad women who shaped cities (CityLab)
    • Some of the best Halloween transportation costumes of 2016—scary sharrows! (Streetfilms)

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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