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8:45 AM PDT on June 22, 2020

    • CA High Speed Rail Program is at risk: money and politics (SF Chronicle)
    • Marin transit officials seem skeptical of bill to streamline transit projects (Marin Independent Journal)
    • Take back the streets (NY Times)
    • How to walk during a pandemic (Guardian)
    • Austria tries a flat transit fee: $3 a day for transit to everywhere (CityLab)
    • Trump rolls back, so CA writes its own environmental rules (CalMatters)
    • John Cox argues state's "preference" for fighting climate change is endangering cars (Bakersfield.com)
    • SUVs, even smaller ones, are still dangerous (Mercury News)
    • Santa Barbara ranked third best city for bikes by People for Bikes. Comments say otherwise - and Edhat fails to mention that San Luis Obispo is ranked #1
    • Two sleeping residents and their house get in the way of suspected drunk driver, are injured (Mercury News)
    • Protests in the suburbs (CityLab)
    • Modern farming is a fight against nature, and it's killing us (CalMatters)

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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