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8:24 AM PDT on May 20, 2020

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Slow streets are the path to a better city (Curbed)
Rents will drop in the short term, but that may not help long-term affordability (CBS)
Greenhouse gas emissions dropped, but will that be sustained? (SF Chronicle)
How to have a safe family bike ride (NY Times)
Use a bike for at least one trip per week: #GoByBike (PR Newswire)
Have we been relying on traffic deaths for organ donations?? (Kaiser Health News)
Universal telecommuting could increase greenhouse gas emissions, traffic (SSTI)
CA stands to lose a lot of transportation revenue (Planetizen)
How Kansas City's experiment with zero-fare transit is going (U.S. PIRG)
UC Berkeley to test, deploy sensors and "smart" technology to manage on-campus parking, traffic (Odessa Arts Online)

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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