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By Melanie Curry

8:54 AM PDT on March 13, 2018

Instead of outlawing distracted walking, why not just outlaw getting old? (Treehugger)
Pedestrian deaths keep rising and LA County has the most in the country (LA Daily News)
Californians divided over gas tax repeal (PPIC)
CEO of San Joaquin Regional Transit: Gas tax is a boon for transit (Comstock Magazine)
Union City mayor defends highway connector plan (Patch)
Electric scooter startups ready to expand to dozens of U.S. cities (Curbed)
SMART train meeting ridership, revenue goals (Marin Independent Journal)
CA Attorney General ordered to rewrite description of cap-and-trade Proposition 70 (LA Times)
Governor Brown urges Trump to visit high speed rail project while he’s in California (LA Times)
Homeless housing projects are easily blocked (LA Times)

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