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8:27 AM PDT on August 6, 2015

    • Stop building parking garages, Oakland, and solve your housing crisis (East Bay Express)
    • Santa Cruz begins planning corridor improvements: alternative transportation, higher densities (Santa Cruz Sentinel)
    • Bakersfield unveils alternative route for high-speed rail—not near existing Amtrak station (Bakersfield Californian)
    • Metro survey shows high levels of sexual harassment on public transit (LA Curbed)
    • At last, someone has invented an “unstealable” bike (Christian Science Monitor)

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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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