Today’s Headlines

9:00 AM PST on January 31, 2018

In his last State of State, Brown reverts to the conventional (Capitol Weekly)
Bike/ped bridge over railroad tracks will close a gap in Bay Trail (East Bay Times)
Stockton wins grant to start work on healthier outcomes from city planning (Record.net)
CA is set to exceed goal of 1.5 million electric vehicles by 2025 (Curbed)
Sixteen CA mayors want zero-emission buses (Union of Concerned Scientists)
Politics is failing mass transit (Democracy Journal)
Using natural “sneckdowns” to advocate for better streets (99 Percent Invisible)
Startups are offering financing for granny flats (East Bay Times)
Sacramento needs construction workers (Sacramento Bee)
Ultimate guide to Amazon's HQ2 Hunger Games (City Lab)

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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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