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8:35 AM PST on November 7, 2018

    • See transportation-related election results at The Transport Politic
    • What it would really take to make all cars electric (Forbes)
    • SFMTA names a woman as head of Muni (SF Examiner)
    • Can a firefighter's death change a culture of distracted driving? (The OCR)
    • Fresno's ambitious plans for a high speed rail station (Fresno Bee)
    • Cities for women (The Naked City)
    • What if our urban trees die? (LA Magazine)
    • This commuter finds an e-bike cuts commute costs (ABC)
    • A smart city is an accessible city (The Atlantic)
    • And now: Scary-and spectacular--pedestrian bridges (ValueWalk)

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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