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8:10 AM PST on March 7, 2019

    • Oregon Congressman Blumenauer seeks to reinstate bike commute tax benefit (Bike Portland)
    • SANDAG will throw away transportation spending plan and start over, and other news from California Planning and Development Report
      • That means highway upgrades on the chopping block! Or maybe choosing between highways and transit? (San Diego Union Tribune)
    • Schwarzenegger, De Leon team up on clean transportation (LA Times)
    • Study: Autonomous vehicles aren't good at seeing people with dark skin (Mobility Lab)
    • Court rules that Uber is not criminally liable in crash that killed a woman (NY Times, NPR)
    • Who benefits when a freeway is widened? (CityObservatory)
    • Future stadium in Inglewood is driving up rents and evictions, forcing a reckoning (LA Times)
    • Local count of homeless in OC found numbers rose precipitously last year (LAist)
    • MIT tries to map inequality at the address level (CityLab)
    • University of California ends contract with Elsevier, academic publisher that holds taxpayer-funded research behind a paywall (Mercury News)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF

Melanie Curry

Streetsblog California editor Melanie Curry has been thinking about transportation, and how to improve conditions for bicyclists, since her early days commuting by bike to UCLA long ago. She was Managing Editor at the East Bay Express, and edited Access Magazine for the University of California Transportation Center. She also earned her Masters in City Planning from UC Berkeley.

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