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8:14 AM PDT on October 10, 2019

    • The case for Complete Streets (The Dirt)
    • Inequality is slowing cities to a crawl (Atlantic)
    • Stanford project works to shift commute habits (Palo Alto Online)
    • New leadership needed if San Francisco wants to see trains (SF Examiner)
    • Richmond vs. Chevron (The Guardian)
    • Climate emissions in California are mostly from cars (Grist)
      • But we can avoid talking about what that means if we focus on wildfire emissions (Phys.org)
    • Air Resources Board says federal EPA is to blame for the backlog it wants to punish CA for (Bloomberg)
    • Local media and leaders add fuel to the confusion about Highway 99, 46 funding instead of explaining what actually happened (Fox, Sun)
    • Trade rules emerge as a climate weapon in Europe (Phys.org)

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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