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8:39 AM PST on January 13, 2021

    • Bakersfield says it has ended chronic homelessness (Fast Company)
      • COVID job losses will increase LA's homeless population (LA Times)
    • Greater Sacramento region stay-at-home order lifted (but wear a mask) (Sacramento Bee)
      • ...while LA County braces for another surge on top of this one (LA Times)
    • Uber, Lyft drivers sue to overturn Prop 22 (Transport Topics, Sacramento Bee)
    • Temporary closures planned at Richmond BART station (Local News Matters)
    • How downtowns could rebound and thrive (Route Fifty)
    • Why bike-share works really well, sometimes (BBC)
    • USDOT releases autonomous vehicle guidance (Planetizen)
    • AARP releases handbook for building better neighborhoods

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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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