Today’s Headlines

9:00 AM PDT on October 31, 2017

What does the rise of telecommuting mean for traffic and transit? (Governing)
Then why are we still commuting? (Pacific Standard)
Why sustainable transportation matters (World Bank)
Serious sentences do get handed down for traffic deaths--when cops are the victims (Daily News)
A history of the backlash to NIMBYs (Grist)
Supreme Court won't hear case claiming requiring affordable housing is a “taking” (LA Times)

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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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