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Today’s Headlines

8:50 AM PDT on March 29, 2019

    • Study: Congestion pricing could cut driving in West LA (LA Times)
    • Driving a train in Southern California (Curbed)
    • Petaluma hopes widening the freeway will reduce traffic (Petaluma 360)
    • Transportation app has potential to reduce car trips (Forbes)
    • Bay Area home prices, sales reflect expectations that upcoming IPOs will mean lots of people with cash (SF Chronicle)
    • Tale of two Californias: Prosperity on the coast, harder times inland (SF Chronicle)
    • "Never forget?" Nah: The move to rename L.A.'s Memorial Coliseum means they already did (LA Times)
    • Citizen science: Oakland tested an earthquake early warning system yesterday (KQED)

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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