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8:51 AM PST on December 15, 2017

    • Youth group observes traffic, sees lots of distracted driving (Turlock Journal)
    • Redwood City plans to bring bike lanes to El Camino Real (Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition)
    • Encourage bicycling by giving people opportunities to ride for fun (LSE)
    • California adopts climate game plan for 2030 (EDF)
      • Including plan for more than 4.2 million electric vehicles (Forbes)
    • Calaveras County begins planning for sustainable transportation with gas tax money (Calaveras Enterprise)
    • Plan for high speed rail includes links east, south (Mass Transit)
    • Contractors charge that California's “smooth pavement standard” is too strict (Sacramento Bee)
    • California drivers are the worst (Sacramento Bee)
    • US industries are still increasing investments in oil and gas (Houston Chron)
    • Elon Musk hates public transit. Now can we all please just ignore him? (Wired)

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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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