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Today’s Headlines

8:40 AM PST on November 20, 2018

    • Uber drops e-bikes in San Diego (San Diego Union Tribune)
    • Tiny vehicles and the new safety in numbers (Medium)
    • Autonomous vehicles could lead to decrease in car ownership, but only in cities (Axios)
    • Join Strong Towns to document Black Friday parking use (Strong Towns)
    • HSR opponents say state auditor report means HSR must die (Press Telegram)
    • Solana Beach getting serious about plastics ban (LA Times)
    • The air in California has been really, really bad (Bloomberg)
    • Now it's the “radical environmentalists” who are to blame for California fires, according to the very uninformed Trump administration (LA Times)
    • Trouble at HQ means a big bicycle retailer may close stores nationally (News Observer)
    • Why affordable housing is scarce in progressive cities (Curbed)
    • Prevent urban sprawl, save money (World Resources Institute)
    • Very scary: Trump administration hints it might share census information (Washington Post)

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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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