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8:49 AM PST on December 14, 2017

    • How hard is it to walk in suburbs? Sometimes it is impossible (TreeHugger)
    • Bakersfield City Council approves pedestrian crossing that requires multiple beg buttons on road it plans to widen for cars (Bakersfield.com)
    • Is dockless bike-share the future of transportation? (Forbes)
    • San Francisco is taking demand-based parking prices citywide (NextCity)
    • Transit agencies hesitant to adopt electric buses; one excuse is weather (The Weather Network)
    • BART is making millions off an outdated policy that charges people who don't ride (GJEL)
    • Oh great—golf carts are now “micro transit” (Next City)
    • California Transportation Commission approves funding:
      • To Watsonville, for roadway, bike and pedestrian improvements (Patch)
      • To Paskenta Band of Nomlaki Indians in Tehama County, for climate adaptation planning (Red Bluff Daily News)
    • Caltrans video: The last days of the old Oakland Bay Bridge
    • Mayor Ed Lee mattered beyond San Francisco (Sacramento Bee)

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Melanie Curry

Streetsblog California editor Melanie Curry has been thinking about transportation, and how to improve conditions for bicyclists, since her early days commuting by bike to UCLA long ago. She was Managing Editor at the East Bay Express, and edited Access Magazine for the University of California Transportation Center. She also earned her Masters in City Planning from UC Berkeley.

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