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Today’s Headlines

8:48 AM PDT on September 27, 2019

    • Trump fired a panel of air pollution researchers a year ago. Now they are meeting on their own (The Guardian)
    • San Diego's shift to transit is long overdue (Voice of San Diego)
    • BART chooses new fare gates (SF Chronicle)
    • Northern reaches of Santa Monica beach bike paths to see improvements (Santa Monica Lookout)
    • Quick build initiative is transforming the streets of San Francisco (Planetizen)
    • Zero emission vehicles will save money, but need supportive policies (UC Davis)
    • The myth of "green cars" (New Statesman)
    • More about California Tropical Forest Standard (Earth.com)
    • California readies plans to launch "its own damn satellite" to measure climate change (LA Times)
    • Honolulu's bad tactic for unsafe pedestrian crossings: remove crosswalks (Honolulu Civil Beat)
    • No thank you: Uber wants its app to be indispensable to city residents (The Verge)

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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