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Today’s Headlines

8:42 AM PST on December 12, 2017

    • Stop driving your kids to school (Outside Online)
    • Davis, Sacramento, and West Sacramento set to launch electric bike-share (Next City)
    • Giant donates bikes for Northern CA fire victims (Press Democrat, Marin Independent Journal)
    • Indio has grant money to build sidewalks, but contractors are too busy, project too small (Desert Sun)
    • BART tells VTA why its single-tunnel idea is a bad idea (Systemic Failure)
    • Route of planned freeway through northern Stanislaus County debated (Modesto Bee)
    • Is Union City building a transit-oriented downtown? (Urban Land Institute)
    • Future cap-and-trade emissions allowances have been bought up; now cap needs to be lowered quickly to reach emissions goals (NY Times)
    • With resignations over sexual harassment charges, state Assembly Democrats lose supermajority—for the moment (SCPR)
    • Trump's reckless climate policy invites a judicial backlash (Vox)
    • In the Netherlands, rising seas are an opportunity (NY Times)
    • Jeff Speck's ten rules for automated cities (CNU)

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