Today’s Headlines

8:47 AM PDT on July 3, 2019

SMART, Rohnert Park explore changes at train crossing that saw two recent deaths (Press Democrat)
No buses, but S.F.'s new transbay center does have a gondola (Mercury News)
Organizing regional rail in the face of efforts to undermine everything but the car (The Reauthorization Dialogues)
OSHA tells employers to ban texting while driving (Business Journals)
Hawaii gets the crosswalk law backwards (Maui Now)
Why spend cap-and-trade money on clean water: everything is connected (CALmatters)
CA Senate approves bill on housing, homelessness (AP News)
Oregon is making normal neighborhoods legal again (Strong Towns)

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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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