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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, 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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