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8:46 AM PDT on March 26, 2019

    • Housing policy is climate policy (NY Times)
    • Bike path alongside SMART railway is taking way too long to finish (Press Democrat)
    • How many trees are needed to cool a city street: 40% canopy cover (Popular Science)
    • Residents wanted long-haul bus service to Westwood, Las Vegas, so Long Beach transit agency found partners to provide it (Business Journal)
    • Development in Santa Barbara would threaten pedestrian safety (Edhat)
    • Americans are driving more than ever (Route Fifty)
    • More on tool to estimate induced travel in California (SSTI)
    • Testing Google's walking directions of the future (Gizmodo)
    • It's possible to attach your own private car to Amtrak--for now (CityLab)
    • An ancient trash pit reveals how a climate shift decimated an ancient city (National Geographic)
    • People are really confused about the benefits and drawbacks of one-way streets (LAist)

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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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