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Thursday’s Headlines

Living without a car in LA; Car dependency is expensive; Urban highways cost us billions in home value, property taxes; Speed cameras benefit people of color; More

8:41 AM PDT on August 17, 2023

  • Living without a car in L.A. (without mentioning how much $ you save) (LA Times)
  • Car dependency is expensive for everyone (Marketplace)
  • Urban highways cost billions in home value, property taxes (Bloomberg)
  • Opinion: Speed cameras would help protect everyone, including people of color (CalMatters)
  • Federal mileage fee pilot: keep it simple (Route Fifty)
  • Downtown Fresno is a hot housing market (Marketplace)
  • SoCal gas fought climate regulations for years, costing ratepayers millions (Sacramento Bee)
  • Sacramento driver arrested for "deliberately" driving into bicyclist (CBS)

Find more California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF

Melanie Curry
@StreetsblogCal

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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