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8:15 AM PDT on September 26, 2016

    • The real way to reduce traffic congestion (hint: it's not widening highways) (Santa Cruz Sentinel)
    • Where should Bay Area Bike Share—excuse me, Ford GoBike—put its stations? (Mercury News)
    • Friends use “Ghost Bike” to call for harsher penalties for injuring bicyclists & pedestrians (Pasadena Star-News)
    • More locals oppose high speed rail through their town (LA Daily News)

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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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