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Today’s Headlines

8:28 AM PST on February 17, 2021

    • How Biden's environmental justice order might work (Scientific American)
    • Ridership may not be the right metric for transit (CityLab)
    • National political games around a carbon tax (Politico)
    • Cap-and-trade to be "evaluated" in CARB's upcoming scoping plan process (Capital Public Radio)
    • CA bill considers permanent online access to government meetings (Governing)
    • Grocers claim pay raises for its employees would force it to shut some stores - despite big profits during pandemic (LA Eater)
    • How Ciclovía changed Bogotá (VeloNews)

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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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