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8:05 AM PST on March 2, 2018

    • Why California needs to stop building freeways (San Mateo Daily Journal)
    • But but but....Bakersfield clears a neighborhood for a new freeway that will cut right through it (Young Ryan)
    • LA's 710 freeway expansion would compromise residents' health (so will Bakersfield's new fwy, btw) (Mic)
    • San Bernardino freeway could get toll lanes (Press Enterprise)
    • Riverside County opposes gas tax repeal (RCTC)
    • New Caltrans chief says her orders are to spend gas tax money, quickly (Sacramento Bee)
    • CA tax board refuses to go along with raising gas taxes, for now (Sacramento Bee)
    • Reasons for the highest pedestrian death rates in years (NPR)
    • Cupertino adopts pedestrian master plan (Mercury News)
    • It's outrageous to prosecute moms whose children die because of incorrectly installed car seats (Slate)
    • Bill would require Uber, Lyft to go electric; will it kill public transit? (Sacramento News & Review)
    • How a street design book is changing biking in America (Atlantic)
    • LA adjusts speed limits—some up, some down—and can now enforce them (KTLA)
    • $2 billion to help house California's homeless is not being spent (LA Times)
    • L.A. Mayor Garcetti says housing bill doesn't do enough to protect the status quo (LA Times)
    • Is California oil regulation working? (Cal Matters)

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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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