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8:43 AM PST on March 6, 2019

    • Counting the homeless is no simple task (CityLab)
    • Pedestrian deaths are up; A city with few of them pats itself on the back for its low fatality rate (KHTS)
    • Seleta Reynolds on fixing transportation in car-dependent cities (IoTNews)
    • Some think Uber and Lyft IPOs will bring pressure for the companies to be more aggressive on emission reductions (Axios)
    • The future of high-speed rail may be in Texas (Planetizen)
    • National project could bring better data to regions planning transit commute networks (T4America)
    • Singapore is about to test full-size autonomous buses (Bloomberg)
    • Celebrating a paving job way out in the desert (Roads&Bridges)

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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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