Today’s Headlines

8:35 AM PDT on October 25, 2021

Community air monitoring program being hijacked by oil interests, say advocates (Mercury News)
Report: San Diego falling short boosting walking, biking, and transit (San Diego Union Tribune)
San Diego okays free youth transit passes, service increases (Times of San Diego)
San Francisco celebrates completion of Geary Blvd Rapid project (Patch)
Ventura County may see a transit sales tax on its 2022 ballot (VC Star)
OC transit's environmental mitigation program recognized by FHA (OC Breeze)
Connection between Brightline, Metrolink planed for Rancho Cucamonga (Railway Age)
In Barcelona a month ago, five families rode bikes to school; now there are hundreds (NPR)
Paris plans to become "100% cycleable" (Bloomberg)
Supply chain issues will take some time to fix (Valley News)

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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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