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8:34 AM PDT on October 8, 2018

    • UN report on global warming: We're not doing enough, and we're running out of time (Sacramento Bee)
    • Cap-and-trade offsets are paying for emission reductions that would have happened anyway (San Diego Union Tribune)
    • Metrolink survey finds very high level of interest in taking transit among SoCal college students (ABC7)
    • Santa Maria to hold workshops on unmet transit needs (Santa Maria Times)
    • In Orange County, roads are getting fixed after years of neglect, but people still resist the gas tax (Desert Sun)
    • Coming up in San Jose: Summit on pedestrian issues (Mercury News)
    • After dozens of explosions, a community in MA is done with natural gas (Inside Climate News)

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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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