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8:44 AM PDT on June 2, 2016

    • Bill allowing smog exemption for old vehicles passes Senate Appropriations Committee (Systemic Failure)
    • Video: Caltrans Director's Bike Ride 2016 (YouTube)
    • Fresno's pedestrian mall destroyed, with pictures (Stop and Move)
    • Caltrans awards $74.6 million for Low Carbon Transit Operations (SCVnews)
    • Plans for San Luis Obispo County transportation tax measure shaping up (Edhat)
    • We don't need your stinking gas taxes! Just: forget HSR, use cap-and-trade for roads and general funds to pay off road debts (Fox and Hounds)
    • Too many lives lost on our roads (AARP)
    • Sea level rise and rail transportation in the East Bay (Urban Life Signs)
    • Video: mayors of three CA cities (Oakland, Fresno, South Gate) address economic challenges (PPIC)
    • World's longest train tunnel (35 miles) opens through the Alps (NY Times)

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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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