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8:20 AM PDT on October 25, 2017

    • Congressional auditor urges action on climate change (New York Times)
    • It doesn't matter if cities are climate-proof if no one can afford to live in them (The Nation)
    • We need to be planning now for more, bigger floods (Mother Jones)
    • Your daily commute costs a lot (Inverse)
    • LA expects on-demand to be the future of transit (Wired)
    • Electrify city buses already (Vox)
    • Stanford proposes off-campus bikeway improvements
    • After fire, counties consider new and emergency housing policies (Press Democrat)
    • San Francisco ponders tax ballot measures, including fees on Uber, Lyft (SF Examiner)
    • UPS is testing cargo bikes for deliveries in Toronto (The Star)

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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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