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Today’s Headlines

8:30 AM PDT on October 29, 2018

    • Coast Rail Coordinating Council will work to improve train service between L.A., San Francisco (Santa Maria Times)
    • UPS to expand use of delivery bikes...to Seattle (Electrek)
    • Caltrans closes Sacramento's Tower Bridge for maintenance work (Sacramento Bee)
    • Using market credits to lower greenhouse gas emissions from fuels (Biodiesel Magazine)
    • CARB approves funding for clean transportation investments from cap-and-trade (Green Car Congress)
    • Inland Empire awarded millions from gas tax for roads, bridges, rail, and trails (Press Enterprise)
    • Report: Gas tax is working (YubaNet)
    • Report: Prop 6 would cost LA County a lot of money (Patch)
    • Prop 6 ads are getting ugly (WMBF)
    • LA Times editorial board: Pro-Prop 6 campaign is misleading
    • BART gets zoning power, but may keep building parking lots (Systemic Failure)
    • Driverless cars won't help congestion, but autonomous transit could (WRALTechWire)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF

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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