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8:39 AM PDT on April 23, 2015

    • Sounds familiar: "Vision Sonora" proposes parklets, business owners complain of parking losses (Union Democrat)
    • New fountain, road diet, sidewalks and crosswalks on California Avenue in Palo Alto (Palo Alto Online)
    • Public meetings scheduled to discuss Plan Bay Area 2040 (Safe Routes to Schools)
    • Berkeley: Bike festival on Sunday, bike plan update open house on Monday (Berkeleyside)
    • Tampa Bay police chief defensive in response to Times investigation showing out-of-proportion ticketing of black cyclists (Tampa Bay News)
    • New bicycle friendly businesses announced for 2015 (League of American Bicyclists)

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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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