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8:52 AM PDT on September 13, 2016

    • How to write an anti-bike rant (it's easy!) (Treehugger)
    • S.F. lost the Smart City challenge, but will continue partnership with UC Berkeley on transportation improvements (Daily Cal)
    • It's time to make L.A. walkable (LA Times)
    • Santa Cruz releases update for zoning changes along main corridors (Santa Cruz Sentinel)
    • Local sales tax measures hope to raise much-needed transportation money (Mercury News)
    • Good state leadership brought historic clean air measures (Capitol Weekly)
    • Is Uber helping—or killing—transit? (Slate)
    • Sonoma County will offer incentives to switch to electric vehicles (Press Democrat)
    • Why Governor Brown's housing proposal failed (LA Times)

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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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