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By Melanie Curry

8:34 AM PST on January 5, 2018

Cars will be outfitted with monitors to find pollution hot spots (Mercury News)
San Francisco touts record low traffic fatalities in 2017 (SF Gate)
San Diego ready to fix pedestrian bridge (La Jolla Light)
More on potential fossil fuel vehicle ban (ThinkProgress)
VW settlement money aimed at increasing electric vehicles (Pew Charitable Trusts)
CA applications for accessory dwelling units skyrocket after regulatory reform (Next City)
Bill would mandate denser housing near transit (Curbed SF)
Redwood City plans affordable housing outside downtown (Mercury News)
California Rep Jeff Denham wants to head the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee (LA Times)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF

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