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By Melanie Curry

10:01 AM PST on November 16, 2016

SF’s Van Ness Avenue set for 3-year BRT construction; first, no more left-turn pockets (SFGate)
AAA predicts busiest Thanksgiving travel in nine years (Mercury News)
Kern County transit to be run by National Express Transit (Mass Transit)
USDOT awards $11M to UC Berkeley and San Francisco to reduce congestion (California Magazine)
That rise in traffic fatalities? Because apps (NY Times)
Why urban areas must champion efforts to mitigate climate change (New Times)
Six things city builders can learn from this election (Modacity)
NRDC‘s City Energy Project: Reducing energy and water use in 20 cities
The differences between capacity of roads and public transit (D Magazine)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF

Melanie Curry

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