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Today’s Headlines

8:44 AM PDT on March 27, 2023

    • What the IPCC report means by a 1.5 degree temperature change (E&E News)
    • Study: The way states invest federal funding could really screw up climate efforts (Georgetown Climate Center)
    • California is in denial about fossil fuels (LA Times)
    • Climate deniers are becoming climate doomers - but there's little reason to give up, people (Washington Post)
    • Highway 99 expansion faces new EPA inquiry after Caltrans failed to analyze air quality, public health impacts (Fresnoland)
    • LA Metro uses classical music to punish riders (Curbed)
      • ...while BART entices its riders with its dulcet tones (BART)
    • LA Metro considers creating its own police force (LA Times)
    • Lots of coverage of federal e-bike tax incentive (Bicycle Retailer, People for Bikes, Electrek)
    • State to audit Santa Clara transportation agency (Patch)
    • Struggling to guess how many people will ride new BART extension (Mercury News)
    • CAHSRA board approves cost increase (ENR)
    • Meanwhile CTC allocates over $1 billion for road projects in California (2 News)
    • The very dumb history of the bicycle license (Outside)

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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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