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8:48 AM PDT on August 31, 2017

    • Report: Americans are driving more every year. Erroneous conclusion: Therefore we must build more roads (Daily Republic)
    • CA legislature considers phasing out fossil fuel use over time (LA Times)
    • Cap-and-trade bill gave oil industry everything it wanted, but there is still room for environmental victories (East Bay Express)
    • CA senators call for more funding for clean trucks and buses (EconoTimes)
    • No, inevitable sprawl is not the issue driving lower transit ridership (Ethan Elkind)
    • Omnitrans adds bus service to Ontario airport (The Sun)
    • Rules change benefits Uber, Lyft; should reduce some congestion at LAX (LA Times)
    • Affordable housing bill faces 2/3 hurdle (Fox and Hounds Daily)
    • SF Chronicle takes a look at that court ruling on tax initiative vote threshold
    • Republicans may seek ways to keep in place 2/3 vote threshold for all tax increases (Desert Sun)

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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