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Today’s Headlines

8:42 AM PDT on September 20, 2017

    • Ventura pedestrian overpass to close for upgrades (Ventura County Star)
    • Napa transit to buy electric buses (Napa Valley Register)
    • Judge rules state's proposed language on tax repeal measure is misleading (LA Times)
    • Climate change science has plenty of uncertainties--the biggest being how much pollution humans will continue to produce (NY Times)
    • PPIC survey: Millenials support action on climate change
    • Editorial: Sacramento must demand results from cap-and-trade funding (SF Chronicle)
    • Electric bus travels 1,100 miles on a single charge (Inverse)
    • Why smart cities are often bike friendly cities (Gov Tech)
    • An update on high-speed rail in California (SF Curbed)
    • The future of passenger rail in Kern County (Mass Transit)
    • Amtrak's California Zephyr still carrying passengers, for now (Aspen Public Radio)
    • Opinion: The costs of high-speed rail are dwarfed by the costs of not building it (LA Times)
    • Opinion: California's top two primary led to more political cooperation (The Hill)
    • The future of autonomous vehicles may not be what you imagine (Gov Tech)

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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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