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8:43 AM PST on December 18, 2018

    • E-bikes are good for a lot of reasons (BoingBoing)
    • You can't evacuate a city like LA just using cars (Curbed)
    • Big polluters get free allowances from cap-and-trade system, raising doubts about CA's commitment to fighting climate change (CALmatters)
    • Caltrans publishes climate vulnerability assessments for state highways (KPIX)
    • UN Climate Summit is a lot of talk, resistance to facts (Forbes)
    • Advancing e-scooters and bikes in cities (Clean Technica)
    • The organizers who want to abolish single-family zoning in Minneapolis (NextCity)
    • SF loses affordable housing units as fast as it can build them (KQED)

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Melanie Curry@StreetsblogCal

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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