Today’s Headlines
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8:44 AM PDT on September 25, 2019
- More on Trump EPA funding threat to CA for not meeting Clean Air rules (Reuters, Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal)
- Federal bill would cut small transit project grants (Route Fifty)
- But USDOT is giving out $ to accelerate autonomous vehicle testing in suburbs, rural areas (Government Technology)
- Vision for a “lake to lake” bike path in Kern County (Bakersfield.com)
- Ugh: No bike lanes planned on Sierra highways – too hard, good luck riding next to those trucks! (Union Democrat)
- Amtrak says it’s cutting its dining cars, because millennials (Business Insider)
- Stop using growth as the marker of economic health (Guardian)
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