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8:32 AM PDT on September 9, 2016

    • Governor Brown signs bills extending climate change targets (Capitol Radio)  (Sacramento Bee)
    • Senator Fran Pavely's legacy: Greenhouse gas warrior (Capitol Weekly)
    • Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley is the perfect place for a woonerf (Berkeleyside)
    • New Richmond Bridge lanes—for cars and bikes—are set to open in a year's time (Marin Independent Journal)
    • A “new generation” of bikeways is coming to San Francisco (SFMTA)
    • The Expo Line's effect on exercise (CityLab)
    • The air quality probably isn't so good, but you can't beat the excitement: coworking on a freeway overpass (LAist)
    • One way the rich benefit from global warming: luxury cruises that further eff up the environment (Slate)
    • OMG: LAX employees live in the long-term parking lot: video (NY Times)
    • No escape: this house has been hit by six cars (FastCoExist)
    • How to use a roundabout (Pony Parts)

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Melanie Curry

Streetsblog California editor Melanie Curry has been thinking about transportation, and how to improve conditions for bicyclists, since her early days commuting by bike to UCLA long ago. She was Managing Editor at the East Bay Express, and edited Access Magazine for the University of California Transportation Center. She also earned her Masters in City Planning from UC Berkeley.

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