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2:46 PM PDT on April 8, 2015

    • LA Metro, Donald Shoup win American Planning Association Awards (APA)
    • Oakland bends over backward to keep the Raiders, A's; certifies plan for Coliseum City Development (Inside Bay Area)
    • Not every bike rider needs to wear a helmet (Cyclelicious)
    • Even the current child helmet law doesn't do much: data (Systemic Failure)
    • How the arts contributes to a lively city, in California's Central Valley (The Atlantic)
    • Investing in California's infrastructure: Enhanced Infrastructure Financing Districts just might work (California Economic Summit)
    • New study: cities need to be denser than most to reduce GHGs (Pacific Standard)
    • Geek out on this machine: how to build a railroad (YouTube)

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Melanie Curry
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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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