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  • National forests in CA will stay closed for two more weeks due to fire risk – no Labor Day hiking, biking, camping (Sacramento Bee)
  • How transit funding got traded away in the infrastructure package (Eno Center for Transportation)
  • Coalition lobbies to restore transit funding (The Hill)
  • Keep that mask on while riding transit (California News Times)
  • Transportation leaders in SF, LA say: Speeders should not set speed limits – pass A.B. 43! (CalMatters)
  • Iterating to safety (Strong Towns)
  • More on housing density bills (Marketplace, SF Chronicle)
  • Pew Research finds Americans want bigger houses, longer drives (MSNBC)
    • And it looks like a political preference (Motherboard)
  • Census data has been released, and 2020 will be a year with a lot of asterisks (StatChat)

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