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Today’s Headlines

8:26 AM PST on January 8, 2020

    • San Diego, El Monte Union, and Stockton school districts awarded $ for pilot projects to promote zero-emission transportation (KUSI)
    • Senator Wiener's housing-transit bill is back (LA Times, CurbedSF)
      • What would it mean for LA? (CurbedLA)
      • For Long Beach? (LongBeachize)
      • Chair of committee that blocked S.B. 50 last year is not happy he wasn't consulted on amendments (SF Chronicle)
    • EPA, CA working to clear backlog of paperwork on clean air reports (Phys.org)
    • Rep. DeSaulnier introduces a bill in Congress to bar federal government from buying from automakers who opposed CA waiver (SF Chronicle)
    • Uber revamps its app in CA to skirt A.B.5 (Washington Post)
    • San Francisco neighborhood fights housing project (SF Chronicle)
    • The disproportionate effects of air pollution (Route Fifty)
    • California's early primary will be confusing (Capitol Weekly)
    • In London, 87 million trips were made on bike share since 2010 (Intelligent Transport)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF

Melanie Curry

Streetsblog California editor Melanie Curry has been thinking about transportation, and how to improve conditions for bicyclists, since her early days commuting by bike to UCLA long ago. She was Managing Editor at the East Bay Express, and edited Access Magazine for the University of California Transportation Center. She also earned her Masters in City Planning from UC Berkeley.

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