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7:44 AM PDT on June 18, 2019

    • Drivers are going to have to step up on climate change (Sacramento Bee)
      • And maybe California will "study" how to help make that happen (SF Chronicle)
    • Residents press city of Santa Rosa to fix dangerous intersection where people have been killed (Press Democrat)
    • San Diego funds Vision Zero safety projects (Circulate SD)
    • Ventura County extends and renews free college bus pass program (VC Star)
    • El Cajon doesn't even want to hear about San Diego transit plan (San Diego Union Tribune)
    • Experience this guy's boring 1988 commute home from West LA into the San Fernando Valley--relatively empty roads, gas guzzlers, KFWB traffic news (at 13:00: report of a bike rider on the freeway) (Jalopnik)
    • CA Energy Commission hands out clean transportation grants (NGT News)
    • Plastic is not being recycled and nobody wants our garbage (LA Times)

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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