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Today’s Headlines

8:17 AM PDT on August 23, 2018

    • Rethinking bike lanes (Human Transit)
    • The challenges of walking while old (Treehugger)
    • CARB chooses nonprofit program to help bring clean energy to low-income residents (NGT News)
    • Interview with CARB Chair Mary Nichols on transitioning to new administration (Planning Report)
    • AAA says relying on ride-hail would not be cheaper than owning a car—if you live in the sticks and don't have access to transit (NBC)
    • Another critique of the giant new transbay transit center in SF (Wired)
    • City of Berkeley tries a new way to raise funds: issuing bitcoin to raise money for housing (Gov Tech)
    • Bill to allow BART to build housing moves forward (Curbed)

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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