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8:50 AM PDT on August 5, 2016

    • Bikes get you far, transit gets you farther (Found by Bike)
    • “Bike and Build” ride across America completes in Chico (KRCR)
    • Pedestrian bridges: safety vs. convenience (MikeonTraffic)
    • New data on bike collisions in California (Biking in LA)
    • Rodeo refinery fined for emissions violations (San Francisco Chronicle)
    • Consumer group accuses CA refineries of price gouging (LA Times)
    • Fate of climate legislation this session is uncertain (LA Times)
    • How Barcelona is reclaiming its streets from car traffic (Vox)

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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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