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By Melanie Curry

8:34 AM PDT on March 14, 2023

Distracted driving is killing and maiming us (LA Times)
The view on pedestrian safety from Oahu (Honolulu Civil Beat)
- and from Seattle (The Stranger)
America’s highway system is a monument to environmental racism (KQED)
Could BART disappear? (SF Chronicle)
Students took over 10 million free transit rides in 8 months on LA Metro (Daily News, The Source)
Feds recommend funding for transit projects, including four in California (Federal DOT)
Rail news for California (Railway Age)
CA court mostly upholds Prop 22, classifying Uber and Lyft drivers as gig workers (CalMatters, NY Times)
Student housing solutions face roadblocks (LA Times)

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Melanie Curry

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