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7:48 AM PST on January 24, 2017

    • TODAY: CA Senate holds hearing on transportation funding; speak up for public transportation (TransForm)
    • California Transportation Commission allocates $127M for transportation projects (Central Valley Business Journal)
      • ...including $25M for freight, rail transit projects (RT&S)
    • Op-ed: California's crumbling roads require bipartisan fix (Fresno Bee)
    • Video: Caltrans experiments with paint to warn bikes of rumble strips
    • Bluegogo bike-share company still plans to launch, “left message” with S.F. officials to begin discussion of its business plan (Mercury News) (KTVU)
    • The nightmare begins: Trump freezes all EPA grants and contracts (ProPublica) and plans to ban the EPA from funding science (Business Insider) (Vox)
    • The future of clean energy is California (Environmental Defense Fund)
    • ICYMI: The hidden inequality of street design (Fast CoDesign)
    • Rain brings mudslides, floods, road blocks, evacuations (Yahoo)

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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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