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8:30 AM PDT on September 11, 2020

    • No meaningful housing legislation passes in California (Ethan Elkind)
    • California's failure to act on housing affects the entire country (Sightlines)
    • Fresno can teach California how to create an inclusive economic recovery (CalMatters)
    • Bicycling while black: Policing and planning (UC Davis)
    • BART to increase frequency of commute hour service (Daily Cal)
    • Buses are a climate solution (Yale Climate Connections)
    • Drilling for oil while California burns (New Republic)
    • Piloting electric heavy-duty trucks in SoCal (Green Car Congress)
    • Even the feds say we must price carbon (Quartz)
    • UK climate assembly says ban SUVs, boost bicycling, tax frequent flyers (Forbes)

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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