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8:40 AM PDT on June 9, 2017

    • Study: Children can't judge the speed of cars going faster than 20 mph (Telegraph)
    • Hello! The future of transportation is already here, pay attention! (Shifter)
    • LAX has a traffic management plan (Daily News)
    • Mayors, governors pledge to be “green” but still want to expand highways (City Observatory)
    • California, China proving Trump wrong on climate (Pacific Standard)
    • The Clean Air Act probably made Americans more productive, richer (Journalist's Resource)
    • What Californians pay, sort of, to fight climate change—and what we get in return (Sacramento Bee)
    • Changing Republican minds about renewable energy (Ethan Elkind)
    • Rethinking parking policies (Public Square)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF

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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