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8:52 AM PDT on November 3, 2017

    • Hearing on congestion in So Cal includes wacky suggestions to increase transit, bike lanes (Pasadena Star News)
    • Caltrain adopts bicycle parking management plan, hoping to reduce bikes on board
    • A roundabout would slow speeders, extend bike trail into mountains (San Gabriel Valley Tribune)
    • “Car-free” (except taxis, cable cars, loading vehicles, and lost tourists) Powell Street pilot to be made permanent (SF Examiner)
    • BRT being built in East Oakland; reporter finds people who are “caught by surprise” (KALW)
    • Oil industry spent millions to weaken California's cap-and-trade system (who got that money?) (LA Times)
    • California needs a lot more electric charging stations to reach its goals (Bloomberg)
    • Report: Local Transportation Management Associations can help with congestion (Associations Now)
    • Mayor of El Cajon thinks homelessness is due to substance abuse, and its rise is the fault of CA legislature (San Diego Union Tribune)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF

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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