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8:52 AM PDT on July 21, 2016

    • Active Transportation Plan is a welcome addition to bike-scary Garden Grove (Voice of OC)
    • Why the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge is so long (KALW)
    • BART needs to fill 62 jobs by November (East Bay Times)
    • All bulb-outs should be designed as protected intersections (Systemic Failure)
    • San Francisco is losing its black population (NY Times)
    • US mayors worry about infrastructure (NRDC)
    • In New York, the cops are enforcing a “Bicycle Safe Passage Initiative” (NY1)
    • Farm and dairy groups want cap-and-trade extension discussion to wait (Capital Press)

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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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