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Today’s Headlines

8:20 AM PST on March 7, 2022

    • Good morning! We're still not taking action fast enough on climate change (IPCC)
    • Healthy, decent, affordable, sustainable housing is absolutely necessary to the climate fight (NRDC)
    • Downtown Madera to get "complete streets" (Madera Tribune)
    • Complete streets, smaller vehicles for a win for climate, safety, and justice (Eno Center for Transportation)
    • Santa Cruz approves Regional Transportation Plan (Mass Transit)
    • All the bike-friendly bills introduced in the current California session (CalBike)
    • Bill would allow speed cameras (SF Chronicle)
    • Santa Cruz fight over rail-or-trail may be decided by voters (Santa Cruz Local)
    • What Buttigieg can actually do to approve or disapprove highway projects (Eno Center for Transportation)
    • UC Berkeley will enroll all those new undergraduates after all - they will just be online (CalMatters)
    • It will take a constitutional amendment to fix California law letting voters veto public housing (AP News)
    • Kablooie! Boulder blocking Highway 50 blown to smithereens (NBC)

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Melanie Curry

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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