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8:44 AM PDT on June 13, 2018

    • The missing middle of biking (Strong Towns)
    • You can't fix mass transit by destroying it (CityLab)
    • Walk Lake Isabella project seeks funding, public input (Kern Valley Sun)
    • They're still counting ballots in some primary races (Sacramento Bee)
    • What the gas tax will pay for in Sacramento County, if it doesn't get repealed (Sacramento Bee)
    • Member profile: Jeff Wood of Talking Headways (The Urbanist)
    • Yet one more reason to get out and vote: Plan to split California into three states wins a spot on the November ballot (Capital Public Radio)

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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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