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8:21 AM PDT on October 18, 2017

    • Chico Velo offers small grants for bike projects (Enterprise-Record)
    • Bakersfield's solution to a dangerous crosswalk: Remove it, and study options (Bakersfield.com)
    • More than half the states are raising transportation taxes (Sacramento Bee)
    • Millbrae may reduce affordable housing planned at Caltrans station (Green Caltrain)
    • Why few bike to transit, and how to change that (Alta Planning)
    • A brief history of traffic lights (Artsy)
    • Yeah, that will do it: Residents advised to close their windows when fire erupts at El Segundo refinery (LA Times)
    • A guide to Los Angeles transit (Occidental Weekly)
    • Searching for Los Angeles in Blade Runner 2049 (California Planning & Development Report)
    • London is learning more and more about how people travel on the Tube (Slate)

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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