Today’s Headlines

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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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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