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8:19 AM PST on November 20, 2019

    • My fight with a sidewalk robot (CityLab)
    • Interview with new SFMTA director (Curbed)
    • More companies, including Tesla, join with CA in lawsuit against EPA (Inside EVs)
    • The climate war over cars intensifies (Axios)
    • NTSB blames Arizona Uber crash on driver, Uber, victim, state, and feds (Verge, Post-Gazette)
    • Another reason EVs won't be the climate answer: lithium extraction (Technology Review)
    • Why public transit is an equity battleground (CityLab)
    • People are being evicted statewide before new renter protection law takes effect (CalMatters)

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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