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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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