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8:36 AM PDT on July 16, 2015

    • Oakland gets anonymous $34 million gift (Visalia Times)
    • Modesto moves ahead with road diet (Modesto Bee)
    • Alameda gets $2 million grant for new park (Contra Costa Times)
    • The public health implications of taking Level of Service out of CEQA (Planetizen)
    • Driver cellphone use increasing in California (Sacramento Bee)
    • Judge to Uber: give up the data, or stop work in California and pay a big fine (LA Times)
    • There are no accidents (Gizmodo)
    • Three wins for bikes in US Senate transportation bill (League of American Bicyclists)
    • Chair of CA housing finance agency will step down amid controversy over evictions (East Bay Express)
    • Minneapolis eliminates minimum parking requirements for housing near transit (Vox)

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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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