Today’s Headines

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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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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