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9:13 AM PST on December 21, 2016

    • The Uber self-driving car story spreads:
      • Uber admits they have a problem with bike lanes (The Verge)
      • They can't handle bike lanes (Register)
      • They could be a threat to bicyclists (Fortune)
      • Uber's fight against regulation is part of a “master plan” (The Drive)
    • Electric car-sharing coming to low-income areas in L.A. (KPCC)
    • It's ugly, but fascinating: a 3-D digitally printed pedestrian bridge was just finished in Catalonia (All3DP)

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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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