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Today’s Headlines

8:45 AM PST on January 12, 2023

    • Oil company sues LA over drilling ban, claiming inadequate environmental study (LA Times)
    • Newsom faces pushback over proposed transit, climate funding cuts (SF Standard, CalMatters)
    • Federal agencies share "blueprint" for decarbonizing transportation (Smart Cities Dive)
    • Be mindful when using data from congestion studies; they can be meaningless or worse (City Commentary)
    • Why do traffic calming plans attract conspiracy theories? (The Guardian)
    • Telegraph for People: Move to ban cars on major Berkeley street is making sense to more people (Local News)
    • SMART gets more funding; Santa Rosa gets electric buses (Business Journals)
    • Dodger Stadium gondola wins court victory (Mass Transit)
    • Storms delay repairs, boost costs of fixing SoCal rail line (Mass Transit)
    • LA Metro, CAHSR lose out on federal MEGA grants (2UrbanGirls)
    • National Traffic Safety Board warns of safety risks from heavy EVs (NPR)
    • The homes that could solve L.A.'s housing crisis (The Guardian)
    • British drivers, who spend a big chunk of their income on cars, see "no alternative" (Road.cc)

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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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