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8:40 AM PDT on April 18, 2016

    • San Francisco's annual bike count: bike trips way up over last year (SF Examiner)  (Hoodline)
    • BART says it will fine “seat hogs” and “manspreaders” (SFGate)
    • Someday, maybe as soon as 2018, San Francisco ferries will serve Richmond, Treasure Island (SFGate)
    • A critique of public engagement practices (Planetizen)
    • Upcoming Bay Area workshops on Active Transportation Program (Safe Routes to School)
    • The super-rich can no longer get rebates for those Teslas (San Jose Mercury News)

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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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