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Today’s Headlines

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF

By Melanie Curry

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)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF

Melanie Curry

Today's Headlines

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