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Today’s Headlines

8:50 AM PDT on August 13, 2018

    • Huge new transbay transit center opens in San Francisco (The Epoch Times)
    • Marin water district puts up signs prohibiting all e-bikes from its trails (Marin Independent Journal)
    • Work begins in Salinas in anticipation of future commuter rail service connection to Bay Area (The Californian)
    • BART security plan is not popular (Curbed)
    • Where your gas tax dollars go (CalMatters)
    • Oakland is undergoing a massive construction boom (Mercury News)
    • What would happen if cars were removed from cities? (European Sting)
    • Aliso Canyon mitigation settlement could go towards reducing methane from cows (Inside Climate News)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF

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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