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8:39 AM PDT on October 12, 2016

    • Bike-share coming to Pasadena (Pasadena Star News)
    • Driverless shuttles will soon be deployed in Contra Costa County (Statescoop)
    • Why we need more transportation funding (Fox&Hounds)
    • Want to stop pedestrian deaths? Criminalize walking! (TreeHugger)
    • In Germany, a call to kill the internal combustion engine (TreeHugger)

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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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