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8:06 AM PST on January 5, 2017

    • Using art, lighting, and data to make pedestrians safer: an art project in San Leandro (Boom California)
    • Study finds ride-hail carpools could cut congestion—but even its author calls it “utopian” (Mercury News)
    • SF responds to CPUC inaction on ride-hail regulations by scaling back taxi rules (SF Examiner)
    • Sonoma County to get a bit more affordable housing (Press Democrat)
    • California's housing affordability problems have never been worse, according to HCD (LA 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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