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8:47 AM PST on February 1, 2021

    • Central California highway rest stops getting free fast-charge stations for EVs (Transportation Today, Patch)
    • How the coronavirus swamped California, LA (LA Times)
    • Make Black History Month meaningful for everyone this year (SF Chronicle)
    • What Outside Magazine learned from tracking bicyclist deaths in 2020
    • So Cal beach towns are cracking down on e-bike riders (The Beach Reporter)
    • What to expect from e-bike industry in 2021 (Electrek)
    • Rep. Blumenauer tries again with a bill for bike commute tax credits (Bike Portland)
    • Departments of Energy and Transportation could revolutionize transportation (Gizmodo)
    • Moving from the housing we have to the housing we need (Shelter)
    • How to build human capacity (The City Fix)
    • The arguments for Lego bike lanes (The Verge)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF

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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