Today’s Headlines

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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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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