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8:22 AM PDT on April 7, 2021

    • Bill would pressure cities that don't meet their housing targets (SF Chronicle)
    • The true cost of fossil fuel subsidies (Heated)
    • Using new state laws to hold on to your housing - hopefully (KQED)
    • One vision for new housing at North Berkeley BART parking lot (Berkeleyside)
    • Now Republicans are arguing over the meaning of "infrastructure" (NY Times)
    • Pay-per-mile is the right direction (Yahoo)
    • People who don't want to spend all our money on highways find hope in DOT action in Houston (Bloomberg)
    • The looming energy bill question (Energy at Haas)

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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