Today’s Headlines

8:28 AM PST on December 9, 2019

How global warming changed the world of your childhood (ABC)
Caltrans audit finds waste (LA Times)
To "keep pedestrians safe," they will be prohibited on residential street where drivers like to cruise around looking at holiday decorations (Daily Bulletin)
SCAG recommends transportation - er, highway - improvements for Ventura County (Ventura County Star)
Marin groups challenge rule letting e-bikes on national park trails (Marin Independent Journal)
Planners say new bridge near Manteca will also benefit bikes, pedestrians (Record.net)
Fallout from the Ghost Ship fire: Artists pushed out of Oakland (KQED)
Madera receives grant for housing, looks to revitalize downtown (ABC30)
Modesto man hit by three cars, killed; two drivers didn't stop (Modesto Bee)
Glendale braces for more granny flats (LA Times)
Even minimal density could yield millions of new homes (Zillow)
Parsing Uber's report on sexual assault (Urban Institute)
What role should carbon markets play in meeting Paris goals? Justice advocates argue against them (Inside Climate News)
How to fight online lies and chaos (The Verge)

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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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