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8:39 AM PDT on August 21, 2017

    • Going car-free in Pasadena, discovering freedom (San Gabriel Valley Tribune)
    • Stockton's “radical shift” in thinking is good for bicycle safety (Record.net)
    • Narrow roads are better than crosswalks (Strong Towns)
    • Alameda County seeks input on bike, pedestrian conditions in unincorporated areas (Pleasanton Weekly)
    • Report: Rail's role in the California economy (SCVnews)
    • Why are Trader Joe's parking lots so small? So the store can exist (KPCC)
    • Study: One third of Seattle traffic is people just driving around looking for parking--or riders (King5)
    • CA legislature back in session today: housing, immigration on agenda (The Eagle)
    • Newport Beach, opposed to gas tax increase, rejects funding for road repairs (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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