Today’s Headlines

8:46 AM PST on December 23, 2019

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CA mayors, and elected officials ask Newsom: what's your fossil fuel plan? (California Elected Officials)
Electric bike sales will outpace EVs for the next few years at least (Planetizen)
The giant carbon footprint of one-day shipping (CBS)
The "Greta" Effect (Pedestrian Observations)
Give students free transit (Whittier Daily News)
US EPA: We aren't picking a fight with California! (The Telegraph)
Is the Trump administration squashing life-saving car safety tech? (Bicycling)
Affordable housing is being built in areas that lock people into poverty (ProPublica)
Southern California approves new clean-air plan (Air Quality Matters)
LA Times columnist doubles down on skepticism of high speed rail
Toll lanes are inevitable (The Union Journal)
Lake County wants a transit hub (Record-Bee)

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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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