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8:26 AM PST on March 9, 2021

    • We must ban fossil fuels - here's how (Guardian)
    • In the meantime, Kern County Supes vote to fast-track thousands of new oil wells (KTLA)
    • Federal GREEN Streets Act would push states to reduce emissions, VMT (Transport Topics)
    • Berkeley (and the world) needs 100% zero-emission transportation this decade (Berkeleyside)
    • Senate passes relief bill with $30B for transit (Mass Transit)
    • Bay Area sprawls out ever further (SF Chronicle)
    • People are not excited about going back to that time-sucking commute (East Bay Times)
    • Hundreds of homeless people evicted from under a Sacramento freeway. Where to now? (Sacramento Bee)

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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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