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9:03 AM PDT on April 4, 2019

    • Five ways California can improve infrastructure to "unleash the power" of electric cars (USPIRG)
    • It's Distracted Driving Awareness Month
      • which means crackdowns (The Signal)
      • and a call for California to ban all phone use while driving from the National Transportation Safety Board (Modesto Bee)
    • UPS says trucks, bikes, and pedestrians need to coexist peacefully
    • Muni drivers, faced with long commutes, need a better place to sleep than their cars (SF Examiner)
    • Oakland paving plan prioritizes underserved neighborhoods (CBS)
    • Vox says driverless cars will be "unthinkable" in fifty years
    • More on progress of housing-transit bill (Daily Democrat)
    • Nipsey Hussle was trying to buy back his neighborhood (LA Times)
    • Rich San Franciscans start a GoFundMe to fight a homeless shelter; others raise even more to support the homeless (CityLab)
    • Will e-bikes kill the mechanical... er, manual... er, "acoustic" bike? Nah, it's a cockroach (Forbes)
    • Climate change denial on the ground in Miami (Popula)

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Melanie Curry

Streetsblog California editor Melanie Curry has been thinking about transportation, and how to improve conditions for bicyclists, since her early days commuting by bike to UCLA long ago. She was Managing Editor at the East Bay Express, and edited Access Magazine for the University of California Transportation Center. She also earned her Masters in City Planning from UC Berkeley.

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