Today’s Headlines

8:53 AM PST on January 22, 2018

The new BART trains are cool (SF Weekly)
Cost overruns will kill high speed rail, crows LA Times' Vartabedian
Gas tax repeal collects signatures even as road repairs begin with new tax funding (San Diego Union Tribune)
Orange County set to clear homeless camps, but no plans for where they will go (Orange County Register)
How Paris was able to reclaim space from cars (CityLab)
Sprawl and its impact on people, planet (Air Quality Matters)
San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District made it possible to sign up for bad air alerts in Spanish—after a tweetstorm (Fresno Bee)
Oakland fights to keep coal exports out of its port (Mother Jones)

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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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