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Today’s Headlines

8:39 AM PDT on September 28, 2017

    • Why peak period road pricing is fair (City Observatory)
    • Study: People who buy fuel efficient cars tend to drive them more—and to buy gas guzzlers as second cars (SF Chronicle)
    • Commuting by skateboard (Davis Enterprise)
    • More on reinstatement of federal rule re transportation greenhouse gas emissions (Pacific Standard)
    • Fresno meets to decide which projects will get some of its $70m in cap-and-trade money (Valley Public Radio)
    • The environmental risks of California's cap-and-trade system (ZME Science)
    • How Vancouver got over half its residents walking, biking, and taking transit—within a few years of setting that goal (Curbed)
    • Vox video: How Barcelona reclaimed its streets for people
    • People driving with suspended licenses is a huge problem, for them as well as everyone else (Slate)
    • Too few homes on the low end: The U.S. housing market only looks healthy (CNBC)
    • Mathematicians apply game theory to predict pedestrian behavior (Phys.org)
    • Video: How we clean BART cars (oh and BART is hiring for this job)

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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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