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8:29 AM PDT on October 10, 2018

    • Today is Walk & Bike to School Day!
    • Which is good, because your transportation choices matter (CityLab)
    • Lyft is encouraging people to ditch their cars for bikes, transit . . . and Lyft (Bicycling)
    • Former US Sec of Transportation Anthony Foxx joins Lyft (The Hill), and explains why (Medium)
    • Learn the Dutch reach and maybe save a life (NY Times)
    • Are e-bikes about to take over New York City?!!? (NY Times)
    • Turlock Irrigation District adopts electric vehicle plan that includes a community partnership program (Turlock Journal)
    • CPUC considers a charge on community choice electricity programs that could make it harder to meet renewable goals (Capitol Weekly)
    • BART adopts earthquake early warning system (GovTech)
    • OCTA launches a new shuttle service (NBC)
    • Planning urban transportation for people (Meeting of the Minds)
    • Rep. Jeff Denham brings DC official to Modesto to talk transportation—and help his campaign? (Modesto Bee)
    • Senator Scott Wiener will be back with new housing density bill (Curbed)
    • Cars to be banned from London's center (Evening Standard)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF

Melanie Curry

Streetsblog California editor Melanie Curry has been thinking about transportation, and how to improve conditions for bicyclists, since her early days commuting by bike to UCLA long ago. She was Managing Editor at the East Bay Express, and edited Access Magazine for the University of California Transportation Center. She also earned her Masters in City Planning from UC Berkeley.

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