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Today’s Headlines

8:40 AM PDT on May 16, 2017

    • Contra Costa transit agencies offer discount summer youth passes (East Bay Times)
    • Get ready to party: Sacramento will close Broadway to car traffic on Sunday (Sacramento Bee)
    • Car drivers kill a cyclist every month in Orange County (OC Register)
    • Study: Physical separation of cyclists from car traffic is “crucial” for reducing crashes (Cycling Industry)
    • A look at proposed cap-and-trade overhaul (Planetizen)
    • Feinstein pledges to oppose all federal transportation nominees over Caltrain funding (The Hill, LA Times)
    • CA Chamber of Commerce joins appeal against cap-and-trade (LA 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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