Today’s Headlines

8:24 AM PDT on April 11, 2022

The clock is ticking on climate change (IPCC)
Transportation systems must change, and fast, to avoid its worst effects (Fast Company)
Think you're safe from sea level rise? It will push up toxic stuff we've been dumping on the ground for years (KQED)
Former California Transportation Commissioner Lucy Dunn thinks that congestion is the worst problem facing Californians, blames Newsom for problems she helped cause (Los Angeles Daily News)
Tear down urban highways and build housing (Catalyst)
Let's make it a game and rank CA cities by their bad air quality (KTLA)
Almost $2 billion in federal funds coming to CA for transit (Gold Rush Cam)
Berkeley Planning Commission approves housing plan at North Berkeley BART station (Berkeleyside)
Promoting "pedestrian dignity" (Mashable)
CA housing prices rose dramatically, pricing out Latinos and others (NBC)
Oaklanders seem very interested in ADUs (SF Chronicle)

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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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