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8:41 AM PST on February 23, 2016

    • Bike commuters want to complete the Santa Barbara bike plan (KEYT)
    • Sacramento has a plan to stop fare cheats on light rail (Mass Transit)
    • Clovis to host a street design festival (Fresno Bee)
    • San Diego is ready to go big on biking and walking (Next City)
    • How Google is turning cities into research labs (Fast Company)
    • Is value capture a silver bullet for infrastructure? (Crikey)
    • Battling housing measures unite and divide labor, business (LA Times)
    • Bicycles mean freedom from gender slavery in Palestine (NY Times)
    • Australia doubles down on dumb helmet laws (Systemic Failure)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF

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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