Today’s Headlines
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8:54 AM PDT on September 25, 2018
- Dueling campaigns: Gas tax opponents (LA Times)
- …vs Prop 6 opponents (LA Times)
- Gas tax repeal effort and political mileage (Bloomberg)
- “Modernization” of Clipper card—Bay Area’s all-in-one transit card—falls short (Curbed)
- Improving bus stops can increase ridership (Route Fifty)
- It’s not the scooters, it’s the badly designed streets (Greater Greater Washington)
- San Jose to introduce bond referendum for affordable housing (NextCity)
- Meanwhile, voters in Switzerland approve addition of “promoting bicycle infrastructure” to country’s constitution (SwissInfo)
- Official-looking signs in Norway encourage silly walks (Good News Network)
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