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9:03 AM PDT on September 8, 2017

    • Gold Line extension is the perfect project for cap-and-trade money (Daily Bulletin)
    • BART's transit village is more like a parking-oriented village (Systemic Failure)
    • Stockton rolls out fully electric BRT (Smart Cities Dive)
    • Sacramento will try again with local transportation sales tax measure (Sacramento Bee)
    • The path to carbon-free electricity (Capitol Weekly)
    • People want to get their hands on unused Bott's dots, now surplus as Caltrans will not use them on highway lane markings anymore (Mercury News)
    • Ford goes on the attack against texting pedestrians (Planetizen)
    • Lyft planning to introduce self-driving cars in Bay Area (Mercury News)
    • How Colombia has changed the biking experience there (BikeLaw.com)

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Melanie Curry@StreetsblogCal

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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