Today’s Headlines
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8:21 AM PDT on October 18, 2019
- Newsom claps back at charges that S.B. 1 funds are being diverted (Politico)
- UC Santa Barbara (along with UC Irvine, Davis) goes platinum on bike friendly scale: bike share and bike master plan
- How the bicycle changed the world for women (Jalopnik)
- More on new Congressional transportation caucus (Curbed)
- Blue line, er, A line to Long Beach to reopen soon (LA Times)
- Office of Traffic Safety grants go out; Bakersfield gets one to “promote” bike, ped safety (Turnto23)
- Tolling and restricting cars reduces traffic (City Commentary)
- Charging for parking can create jobs, cut car use, slash pollution (Forbes)
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