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4:13 PM PST on December 8, 2016

    • How Sacramento can rethink transportation (Sacramento Bee)
    • Do we really want funding for bicycle projects? (Streets.mn)
    • Fatalities in the “war on cars” are never in cars (The Stranger)
    • Finally: UPS debuts delivery by bike....in Portland (OregonLive)
    • Resiliency vs sustainability in transportation (MikeOnTraffic)
    • San Diego fast-tracked affordable housing that was anything but affordable (San Diego Union Tribune)
    • Blame the housing crisis for the Ghost Ship fire (Slate)
    • Not so fast: are suburbs really that popular? (City Commentary)
    • The next class of Democratic political leaders is training in California (NY Times)
    • Three reasons Trump doesn't matter to energy policy (Forbes)
      • Except there's that small matter of his EPA nominee (NY Times)

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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