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8:47 AM PST on January 31, 2022

    • In honor of Transit Equity Day on Friday, free transit offered on San Bernardino transit (Victor Valley Daily Press) and Metrolink (Spectrum News)
    • Fare-free transit would be a good use of Sonoma County's climate resiliency funds (Press Democrat)
    • Multiple bus routes in San Luis Obispo suspended due to labor shortage (KSBY)
    • New LA County rail line approved (LA Times)
    • CTC allocates money for safety projects and an extra freeway lane in Orange County (OC Breeze)
    • $136m allocated to expand Hwy 46 to a 4-lane expressway (KSBY)
    • Asm. Jim Patterson introduces a bill to build new roads as "escape routes" for wildfires (Fox26News)
    • How well has community air quality monitoring law worked? Hard to say (CalMatters)
    • Santa Cruz gets $29m grant for affordable housing transit hub (Patch)
    • New affordable housing being built in Coachella (NBC Palm Springs)
    • A 210-unit building slated for Berkeley - in place of an ancient I-HOP (The Real Deal)
    • Waymo sues to keep its crash data secret (The Verge)
    • Solar power system needs fixing, but maybe not with a hammer (LA Times)
    • Covid has decimated some government agencies (CalMatters)

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Melanie Curry@StreetsblogCal

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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