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8:55 AM PST on March 6, 2020

    • Celebrate International Women's Day with a bike ride (Cycling Tips)
    • Those %*!$# scooters! Well, actually, cars and vans are improperly parked far more than scooters (Smart Cities Dive)
    • Amazon thought about offering "green" shipping, then decided nah (Bloomberg)
    • City planners' role in creating affordable and inclusive communities (Planetizen)
    • Bad land use and transportation decisions increase congestion (Smart Growth America)
    • Even single-family homes are owned--and rented out--by large corporations (New York Times Magazine)
    • Are luxury apartments sitting empty in L.A.? (Curbed)
    • A Friday transportation thought: sexism in snowplowing patterns (Salt Lake Tribune)

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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