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8:23 AM PST on February 28, 2017

    • Oakland gets a “pedestrian safety czar” (Next City)
    • Palo Alto bike-share plan takes another turn (Palo Alto Online)
    • More on CA bill to allow bike riders to make rolling stops when safe (San Diego Union Tribune)
    • Suggestion: 55% voter threshold for maintenance, not new infrastructure (Getting Around Sac)
    • Hoverbike! (Washington Post)
    • Despite Uber's denial, investigation finds that technology was at fault when self-driving car ran a red light (NY Times)
    • Op-ed: Governor Brown, it's time to do what you know is the right thing on the environment (Capitol Weekly)
    • An engineer makes the case for eliminating bias from planning vocabulary (ITE)
    • CA gas prices set to rise due to supply issues. No worries---it's nothing like that enormous, economy-killing price hike from cap-and-trade. Oh, wait, no--other way around (Mercury News)

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Melanie Curry@StreetsblogCal

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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