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2:22 PM PST on December 12, 2019

    • People are upgrading bike lane "protection" with holiday decorations (Block Club Chicago)
    • News media coverage of car crashes downplays the role of drivers (CityLab)
    • Electric vehicles are not causing the decline in transportation revenue, and a fee on them won't fix it (CalMatters)
    • Electric trucks are critical, viable; Union of Concerned Scientists calls on ARB for a stronger rule than the one it will consider today (Yahoo! Finance)
    • Autonomous freight trucks are on the road now (Popular Mechanics)
    • Marin County readies its wish list for regional transportation sales tax measure (Mass Transit)
    • Orange County considers toll lanes (LA Times)
    • More hype about headphones that warn pedestrians they're about to be run over (Fast Company)

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Melanie Curry@StreetsblogCal

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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