Today’s Headlines

8:10 AM PST on November 8, 2019

SoCal cities vote to focus new housing in coastal areas where there are jobs, transit (LA Times)
Bay Area homes got a titch more affordable in third quarter (SF Chronicle)
Zero Fatalities Task Force soldiers on (CalBike)
California is on track to miss its climate targets by a century (Technology Review)
Rumors say next CTC commissioner could be former Fresno mayor (The Sun)
Bond funds available for HSR to Las Vegas (Forbes)
Protests + public transportation (Vox)
UPS launches rewards program for customers who pick up packages at central points (Transport Topics)
Wichita, Kansas is done with diesel, buying only electric buses (KCUR)
Britain is finding new uses for underused car parking (The Guardian)
Utah says its bus ticket machines aren't worth their cost (Salt Lake City Tribune)

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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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