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8:26 AM PST on March 7, 2017

    • San Diego's efforts would make small but measurable difference in greenhouse gas emissions (San Diego Union Tribune)
    • Is Caltrain electrification doomed by politics, confusion with high speed rail? (NY Times)
    • Bike East Bay opens nominations for its Bike-Friendly Business Awards (Hoodline)
    • Environmental groups say California's climate change programs haven't helped them (KUNC)
    • To meet climate change goals, California has to build a lot more dense housing, and people have to stop driving so much (LA Times)
    • High speed rail is ready to lay some track (Mercury News)
    • ICYMI: Proposed cuts to USEPA go deep (Washington Post)
    • Uber built a tool to help its drivers evade cops and to fake out potential passengers it doesn't like (SF Gate)
    • Shared streets for all ages: what needs to be considered (Streets.mn)
    • Funding for the 2020 Census is at risk, and that's not good (The Hill)
    • Driverless shuttles make their California debut in San Ramon (East Bay Times)

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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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