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Today’s Headlines

8:29 AM PDT on April 25, 2018

    • Ford GoBike launches electric bike service (SF Examiner)
    • Taxing Uber and Lyft to fund transit isn't fair to transit (CityLab)
    • Republican say they have enough signatures for gas tax repeal to go on ballot (LA Times)
    • Stockton sounds nice, but that commute is a killer (Mercury News)
    • Lyft is claiming its rides are carbon-neutral (Curbed)
    • CA lawmakers want $2 billion for housing the homeless (LA Times)
    • Electric buses are …. hurting the oil industry? (Bloomberg)
    • Study from an unexpected source says gas tax isn't enough, a mileage fee is needed (The Hill)

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Melanie Curry
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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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