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8:35 AM PDT on July 17, 2020

    • Buses deserve more street space (The City Fix)
    • Bicycling is so stylish right now! (Conde Nast)
    • Construction begins on electric charging sites in SoCal for commercial fleets (Daily Energy Insider)
    • Uber buys public transportation software company Routematch (The Verge)
    • Who are we "city-making" for, anyway? (Curbed)
    • Inside California's Black exodus (CalMatters)
    • Classic Schwinn models being built by Detroit Bikes (The Detroit News)
    • Nah, Elon, fully autonomous Teslas won't happen anytime soon (PC Mag)
    • New French prime minister promotes e-bikes despite cynicism from parliament (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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