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8:47 AM PDT on April 2, 2019

    • US EPA decision makers are clearly not interested in precautionary principle, claim there is little evidence that bad air leads to early death (NPR)
    • Santa Maria tries out Open Streets (Noozhawk)
    • Duarte becomes first city in SoCal with an all-electric bus fleet (San Gabriel Valley Tribune)
    • Electric school buses are not as expensive as you might think (School Transportation News)
    • Tesla fined for emissions, hazardous waste (SF Chronicle)
    • A board game helps players re-envision a BART parking lot (Berkeleyside)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF

Melanie Curry
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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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