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8:48 AM PST on December 5, 2016

    • More about ARB emission reduction plan (see Streetsblog coverage here) (SF Gate)
    • Transportation research center consortium headed by UC Davis gets funding renewed (The Reporter)
    • Bike SLO County gives bikes to those in need (The Times)
    • How colleges are trying to get students out of cars (Press Enterprise)
    • Redding City Council discusses downtown transportation changes: opening pedestrian mall to traffic, road diets (Record Searchlight)
    • Four major cities plan to ban diesel vehicles by 2025 (BBC)
    • Google's Earth Timelapse shows sprawl, shrinking glaciers (Inhabitat)

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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