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8:42 AM PDT on October 16, 2020

    • US Forest Service is updating e-bike guidelines, seeks input (Bicycle Retailer)
    • New pedestrian guide for urban planners (Intelligent Transport)
    • Bicycle coalition installs hundreds of bike racks around Lake Tahoe (Tahoe Daily Tribune)
    • Pandemic shutdowns cause lasting carbon dioxide decline (UC Irvine)
    • Even with less driving, traffic deaths went up (Curbed)
    • Climate change is wreaking havoc with the power grid (LA Times)
    • California Energy Commission approves funds for zero-emission transportation projects (Green Car Congress)
    • California climate investments tackle food waste (YubaNet)
    • Cities aim to remove police from psychiatric emergency calls (NPR)
    • Investing in Neighborhood Safety Offices (American Progress)
    • Oversight commission calls for LA Sheriff to resign (LA Times)
    • What we learned from CARES act benefits: not a "waste" and not an incentive for laziness (Chicago Policy Review)
    • Rich cities will be alright (Washington Post)
    • The tenants who evicted their landlord (NY Times)
    • California has had only a 70% response rate to US Census (KTLA)

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Melanie Curry

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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