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9:03 AM PDT on March 23, 2018

    • Sure, climate change is real, says Chevron, but it's your fault, not ours (The Verge)
    • Driverless cars are not safe (LA Times)
    • It looks like Uber's technology failed (LA Times), but pedestrian blaming begins in earnest:
      • Pedestrians are a “growing safety concern” (Wall Street Journal)
      • It's “uncomfortable” to be an unwitting participant in self-driving car experimentation (Wired)
      • A collective shrug (Jalopnik)
      • Walk defensively (Car2)
    • Rail “buffs” fight removal of unused train tracks for a bike trail (Sacramento Bee)
    • That huge mass of garbage floating in the ocean is now four times the size of California (San Francisco Chronicle, LA Times)
    • CTC adopts “transportation improvement” plan (Transport Topics)
    • San Luis Obispo awarded state gas tax money for highway improvements, “congestion relief” (San Luis Obispo)

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Melanie Curry@StreetsblogCal

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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