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Today’s Headlines

8:54 AM PDT on April 28, 2016

    • Bikes are teleportation devices (People for Bikes)
    • People behaving badly: car drivers in bike lanes (KRON4)
    • Placer County considers transportation sales tax measure, with at least half for highway expansions (Auburn Journal)
    • Sacramento light rail proponents try again, with more ambitious plan (Sacramento Bee)
    • Federal transportation authorities tout “transportation for the people, by the people” (Fast Lane)
    • Discriminatory bicycle policing in Tampa was “well-meaning,” no apologies forthcoming (Tampa Tribune)
    • A park in Copenhagen uses kids' energy. . . as energy (Inverse)

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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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