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8:23 AM PDT on September 21, 2020

    • It's Bike Week! Pick at least one day (with decent air quality) to ride (Ventura County Star)
    • This is the moment to reimagine public transportation (NRDC)
    • The growing pedestrian safety crisis (US Today)
    • Berkeley police use grant to cite drivers for violating pedestrian right of way (Berkeleyside)
    • Bikes belong on State Street (Santa Barbara Independent)
    • Sonoma County tries again with a transportation sales tax (mostly for roads) (Press Democrat)
    • Santa Barbara County finally replaces LOS measure with VMT (Santa Barbara Independent)
    • A small portion of federal BUILD grants will to go to transit, rail (Mass Transit)
    • Census workers aren't done, but work is being curtailed (SF Chronicle)

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Melanie Curry@StreetsblogCal

Streetsblog California editor Melanie Curry has been thinking about transportation, and how to improve conditions for bicyclists, since her early days commuting by bike to UCLA long ago. She was Managing Editor at the East Bay Express, and edited Access Magazine for the University of California Transportation Center. She also earned her Masters in City Planning from UC Berkeley.

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