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8:26 AM PDT on July 15, 2019

    • For transit to work well, L.A. needs bus-only lanes (LA Times)
    • LA Metro will hold public meetings on Sepulveda Transit Corridor project (Daily News, NBC)
    • Concord offers free bus rides for a year (SF Gate)
    • Ten common, wrong, myths about bike lanes (Guardian)
    • Oakland adopts forward-looking bike plan (SF Gate)
    • A tiny town makes its parking charges rational (CityLab)
    • Construction to begin on rerouting, widening Highway 132--planned since the 1950s--in Modesto (Modesto Bee)
    • Temecula to widen a road, flattening a hill, because that will fix Sunday afternoon congestion (Press Enterprise)
    • Newsom is really mad at oil and gas regulator he fired over fracking, conflict of interest charges (Sacramento Bee)
    • Chevron fills a canyon with oil (Sacramento Bee)
    • Cap-and-trade is raising the price of polluting--in Europe (Marketplace)
    • Upcoming meeting to discuss plans to widen the shoulders of Highway 395 (Record Courier)

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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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