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8:34 AM PST on January 10, 2019

    • Ford to end sponsorship of Bay Area's bike-share (Axios)
    • The inequity of pay-by-distance transit in the Bay Area: BART is unaffordable to people making minimum wage (Curbed)
    • The fallacy of local control over growth (Strong Towns)
    • Would you live in an apartment that used to be a BART car? (Curbed)
    • How European cities are dealing with transit fare evasion (CityLab)
    • Reasons to decriminalize transit fare evasion (TransitCenter)
    • Newsom creates team to work on problems at DMV (Sacramento Bee)
    • Sierra Club explores controversial idea: Local offsets for GHGs in San Diego (San Diego Union Tribune)
    • When Kate McKinnon starred in Streetsfilms as an anti-bike crusader (CityLab)
    • Photos compare the LA River past and present (Curbed)

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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