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8:26 AM PST on December 18, 2019

    • What are e-bikes good for? Hmm. Weight loss. Easier commutes. Parking. (TVNZ)
    • SF allows scooter fleet to expand (SF Examiner)
    • Electric school buses are starting to arrive (School Transportation News)
    • News briefs on California planning issues (California Planning and Development Report)
    • Will other cities follow Kansas City's example and provide fare-free transit? (Vox)
    • Twelve eastern states release draft cap-and-trade plan (NY Times)
    • Ten transportation trends in 2020 (GreenBiz)
    • Wall Street would prefer some kind of (control over) a market mechanism for greenhouse gas emissions (Bloomberg)
    • London to get UK's first zero-emission street (Forbes)

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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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