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Today’s Headlines

8:46 AM PDT on March 18, 2019

    • Driver runs over girl, police blame "glare" (CBS Local)
    • Protecting clean car, fuel standards is a moral imperative (Napa Valley Register)
    • How clean air transformed American cities (Salon)
    • Deadly air: the invisible killer (The Guardian)
    • Scooters and data (LA Times)
    • Trump removes protections on federal lands, opens them to oil, gas, coal extraction (Axios)
    • San Francisco could tax Uber and Lyft rides (SF Chronicle)
    • Desire paths: Pedestrians are gonna go where they wanna go (Mother Nature Network)
    • Photos from the North American Handmade Bike Show in Sacramento (Cycling Tips)
    • Wildflowers bring unruly, destructive crowds (Sacramento Bee)

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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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