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By Melanie Curry

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)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF

Melanie Curry

Today's Headlines

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