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7:58 AM PDT on August 6, 2019

    • We've blamed traffic deaths on bicyclists since 1880--what about drivers? (NY Times)
    • How much traffic do Uber and Lyft generate? Now we have a better idea (CityLab)
    • World's largest cycling infrastructure database launches in London (Polis)
    • This is what plastic is doing in the environment right now (CALmatters)
    • High rents, nowhere to go: how the housing crisis is playing out in Modesto (Modesto Bee)
    • The Californians forced to live in cars and RVs (The Guardian)
    • Earned income tax credit helps people stay in housing (The Conversation)

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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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