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8:41 AM PST on January 26, 2017

    • Safe Routes to Schools offers technical assistance with ATP projects—February deadline
    • Ferry, transit ridership at capacity, and more people are driving on bridges (Marin Independent Journal)
    • More on legal arguments about cap-and-trade (Christian Science Monitor) (LA Times)
    • Profiling is a barrier to biking (Streetsblog Chicago)
    • Book review: NACTO Global Street Design Guide (Dirt)
    • More on federal Democratic leaders' infrastructure plan (Sacramento Bee)
      • Trump's priority list mostly matches the one from the National Governor's Association (McClatchy)
      • When rebuilding infrastructure, don't leave out bicycles (Popular Mechanics)
    • Large Sacramento property owners to decide whether to tax themselves to pay for streetcar (Sacramento Bee)
    • Victim-blaming: a Canadian attempt at a safety message misses the mark by a mile (The Hamilton Spectator)
    • How to decrease bicycling numbers: a cautionary tale from Sydney, Australia (Bike Citizens)
    • San Francisco backs bill that would allow cities to stop self-driving cars without permits (SF Examiner)
    • What San Francisco has at stake if sanctuary cities are punished (Curbed)
    • Elon Musk hasn't heard of induced demand; says he will build huge tunnels to solve congestion (Electrek)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF

Melanie Curry

Streetsblog California editor Melanie Curry has been thinking about transportation, and how to improve conditions for bicyclists, since her early days commuting by bike to UCLA long ago. She was Managing Editor at the East Bay Express, and edited Access Magazine for the University of California Transportation Center. She also earned her Masters in City Planning from UC Berkeley.

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