Today’s Headlines
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8:00 AM PST on January 24, 2019
- States need to take speeding more seriously (Governing)
- The National Household Travel Survey has a thing or two to teach us about transit use (Planetizen)
- America’s most dangerous roads for pedestrians (CityLab)
- The health costs of being stuck in traffic (NY Times)
- Photographic history of Oakland’s redevelopment (Places)
- Uber challenges Lyft’s monopoly on Bay Area bike-share (SF Examiner)
- BART approval ratings hit a low point (SF Chronicle)
- Who is hit hardest by the government shutdown? Not Trump (NY Times)
- Electric bus fleets can jump-start state climate goals (Bay City Beacon)
- Marin wants to take over the promised bike lane on the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge for cars (Marin Independent Journal)
- Google, Facebook, and Microsoft sponsored a conference that promoted climate change denial (Mother Jones)
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