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Today’s Headlines

8:36 AM PST on December 2, 2019

    • Woman killed by truck, so police remind pedestrians, not drivers, to be careful (KUSI)
    • How LA plans to get people out of cars (Fast Company)
    • Dredging SF Bay could encourage oil industry expansion (SF Chronicle)
    • Who's regulating self-driving cars? Sometimes it's nobody (Wired)
    • Australia to deploy cameras that detect text driving (The Guardian)
    • Roadkill is an environmental disaster (The Atlantic)
    • CA banned plastic bags and it worked, despite a loophole (SF Chronicle)
    • This bulldog loves to ride bikes (Bicycling)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF

Melanie Curry
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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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