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8:40 AM PDT on August 27, 2019

    • Housing insecurity is devastating lives everywhere in America, especially in the richest cities (The New Republic)
    • Ride-hail drivers don't have access to their own data (CityLab)
    • Uber and Lyft take a lot more from drivers than they claim to (Jalopnik)
    • Mapping carbon emissions over L.A. (Northern Arizona University)
    • Determining how much in emissions are avoided when people ride transit (Science Daily)
    • Koch left behind a legacy of climate change and ugly politics, all for his own personal gain (Salt Lake Tribune)
    • Carbon offsets might be a really bad idea (Technology Review)
    • Oakland approves housing tower at West Oakland BART station (Curbed)

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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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