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9:25 AM PDT on May 5, 2015

    • Carsharing and the sharing economy face legal test (San Jose Mercury News)
    • Systemic Failure on why a proposed bill that would ban ear buds is a bad idea (Systemic Failure)
    • Writer sees a "failure" in California's east-west transportation connections—but what's the solution, super highways through forests and mountain ranges?  (The Desert Sun)
    • Santa Monica zoning law will soon be settled (Santa Monica Next)
    • LA: Skid Row wants its own neighborhood council (LAist)
    • More about the future of Bay Area Bikeshare (Bay Crossings)
    • Contract awarded for Cross Alameda Trail (Inside Bay Area)
    • San Jose introduces $80 million "Vision Zero" plan (San Jose Mercury News)
    • ...while a Walnut Creek columnist thinks that city's pedestrian plan is a waste of effort (Contra Costa Times)
    • Bicyclists can fill out official Caltrain "bike bump" forms to tell others that the train is out of room for bikes (SF Examiner)
    • More money—maybe—for Muni in SF (SF Examiner)

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Melanie Curry

Streetsblog California editor Melanie Curry has been thinking about transportation, and how to improve conditions for bicyclists, since her early days commuting by bike to UCLA long ago. She was Managing Editor at the East Bay Express, and edited Access Magazine for the University of California Transportation Center. She also earned her Masters in City Planning from UC Berkeley.

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