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8:54 AM PDT on March 19, 2018

    • How to make Santa Cruz county transit safe, fair, viable (Santa Cruz Sentinel)
    • Joshua Tree awarded grant for bike lanes (Inland Empire)
    • Study shows pedestrian safety needs to be a focal point for cities (headline says blame cell phones and marijuana) (Forbes)
    • Why aren't we more angry about pedestrian deaths? (Driving)
    • San Francisco curb space is highly sought after (KALW)
    • Housing, SB 827, and the contradictory reasons people fight development (Dissent)
    • Aviation is the fastest-growing cause of climate change, but nobody's addressing it (Slate)
    • Bill would abolish North Coast Railroad Authority, plan a trail along unused tracks (Petaluma360)
    • Bill would “give cities tools” to fight speeding (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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