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Today’s Headlines

8:58 AM PDT on August 15, 2019

    • Finally! After successful pilot--faster deliveries, happier employees--Domino's to expand pizza delivery via ebike (Electrek)
    • How transit could save the world: make it easier to access (Bloomberg)
    • Monterey-Salinas colleges expand fare-free transit zones for students (Monterey-Herald)
    • "Absurdist geographer" creates graphics from badly designed intersections (Dallas News)
    • The conservative case for clean air regulations (Yahoo Finance)
    • "Kochland" describes how the Koch brothers funded climate change denial (New Yorker)
    • How segregation created traffic jams (New York Times Magazine)
    • Transportation is more than traffic: Measuring walkability (D.C. Policy Center)
    • Tahoe tries bus-only shoulder lanes, park-and-ride, shuttles, bike-share....and crossing guards to manage peak traffic (Tahoe Daily Tribune)
    • Well, it's a funny story anyway: Man tries to avoid tolls, tickets with vanity license plate, instead gets all the bills (The Drive)
    • Northeast "cap and invest" program could boost transit (Streetsblog Massachusetts)
    • Is this San Diego complex a model for transit oriented development? (San Diego Union Tribune)

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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