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8:27 AM PDT on May 16, 2018

    • Caltrans wants input on a proposal to create a “part-time” travel land in Pismo Beach (San Luis Obispo.com)
    • Maybe someone could sing them a song about induced demand? (Oregon Live)
    • High Speed Rail board approves business plan (NBC)
    • FlixBus coming to California (The Drive)
    • Oh, great, it's Infrastructure Week (CityLab)
    • Fair share housing “burden” and putting teeth in RHNA (Lisa Schweitzer)
    • Trump quietly cancels NASA research tracking GHG emissions (Science Magazine)
    • Judge strikes down Oakland ban on coal through its port (Salt Lake Tribune)

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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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