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8:47 AM PST on March 4, 2019

    • Santa Maria will hold its first Open Streets event (Santa Maria Times)
    • You can't take on climate change without tackling sprawl (Grist)
    • The Green New Deal is forcing legislators to take a stand (US News)
    • Community Choice energy aggregators could become power monopolies because big utilities want out (Voice of San Diego)
    • Maybe it's not what we need? Uber wants to be the "Amazon" of transportation (SpaceDaily)
    • Amazon model of cheap single-package home deliveries is not sustainable (Forbes)
    • Officials "had to" pause a women's race when the lead caught up with the men's race (The Guardian)
    • In the Netherlands, e-bikes sales are outstripping sales of regular bikes (Forbes)

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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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