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Today’s Headlines

8:19 AM PDT on September 4, 2019

    • Deaths from red light running are at a ten-year high (NPR)
    • Thoughts and prayers: L.A. installs halos where people have been killed in car traffic (LA Times)
    • A video game shows how freeways can damage cities (Greater Greater Washington)
    • NIMBYs sue to stop L.A.'s Transit Oriented Communities projects (LA Times)
    • What urban sprawl really does to car commutes (CityLab)
    • Railyards project could double the size of downtown Sacramento (Curbed)
    • Caltrans invites applications for $34m in sustainable planning grants (Transportation Today)
    • Nevada to collect mileage data on every motorist in a seven-year pilot (Planetizen)
    • "Green jobs" are hard to count (Politico)
    • In U.S. cities, the poor suffer more from heat (NPR)

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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