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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@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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