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8:37 AM PDT on April 23, 2018

    • Steve Lopez explores L.A.'s “other” [sic] bike culture (LA Times)
    • Causes, consequences of transit fragmentation in the Bay Area (Global Transit Innovations)
    • Watsonville pedestrian seriously injured, so police to cite bicyclists and pedestrians—not drivers? (Santa Cruz Sentinel)
    • Bill would help BART build housing (Bay City Beacon)
    • Moving forward after housing bill spiked (Ethan Elkind)
    • Oil, soda companies pouring money into initiative to make it harder to raise taxes (Sacramento Bee)
    • Bay Area Air Quality Management District to host workshops on Community Health Protection Program in Vallejo, Fairfield (Daily Republic)
    • Parents didn't want fracking near their kids' school, so oil company moved it near a low-income school (Mother Jones)
    • VW promises autonomous parking by 2020 (Automotive IT)

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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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