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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)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF

Melanie Curry
@StreetsblogCal

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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