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8:30 AM PDT on July 12, 2018

    • Using footage of a bike race to measure climate change (CityLab)
    • Humboldt County trail gets ATP funding (Times-Standard)
    • CA met its 2020 emission goals in 2016 (Pacific Standard) (SF Chronicle)
      • But some in-state industries are polluting more, affecting people living nearby (Daily Republic)
    • Next year's transbay tube repairs will mean service cuts on BART (SF Examiner)
    • What happens to all those road repairs if the gas tax is repealed? (Sacramento Bee)
    • One more question regulators are trying to figure out: Security for autonomous vehicles (Reuters)
    • Autonomous vehicle developers want Congress to keep states out of regulation (LA Times)
    • Ride-hail services and race (Wired)
    • Ride-hail companies won't share their data, which makes planning difficult (NextCity)
    • But Waze and Esri are teaming up to offer travel data to cities, planners (The Drive)
    • Housing measures on the November ballot (Capitol Weekly)

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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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