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8:15 AM PDT on September 12, 2018

    • Coachella Valley's pedestrian death rate on track to be third highest this decade (Desert Sun)
    • Global climate action, meet the bike industry—now work together (Green Biz)
    • Forbes still trying to push the idea that nuclear energy is clean energy
    • Vote for your fave California transportation project (Action News Now)
    • Climate investments support jobs in California (Capitol Weekly)
    • Caltrans unveils 2018 State Rail Plan (SCV News)

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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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