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8:09 AM PDT on April 8, 2019

    • An illustrated guide to some of the 200 housing bills being discussed this legislative session (Medium)
    • A political battle over California's suburban dream (CityLab)
    • Mountain View approves demolition of rent-controlled apartments for new market-rate units (KTVU)
    • Lawsuit tries using CEQA to block San Diego's removal of parking requirements (NBC)
    • Way to go, Concord police! To make the streets safe, tickets issued to dangerous pedestrians (and some drivers) (ABC7)
    • CA sues Trump administration for rolling back fuel standards (Washington Examiner)
    • More concrete falls from upper deck of Richmond-San Rafael Bridge (Times-Herald, Mercury News)
    • The oldest active school bus driver in California still loves his job (School Transportation News)
    • Dixon ponders which streets to repair (The Reporter)
    • A fight brews between a park and a freight train line (SF Chronicle)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF

Melanie Curry
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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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