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8:40 AM PST on March 11, 2021

    • California to get $26 billion from federal COVID relief bill (LA Times)
      • Which could cut child poverty in half - because poverty is a policy choice (CalMatters)
    • Bill includes $30b in transit relief (Transportation for America)
    • A dream of nationwide high-speed rail (Vox)
    • Lacking safe streets, what's protecting pedestrians now is congestion (Curbed)
    • Brief hailstorm causes problems on I-5 (Modesto Bee)
    • CA proposal to invest in ZEV infrastructure is a smart move (Union of Concerned Scientists)
    • Sonoma Clean Power launches e-bike incentive program (Sonoma West)
    • Crazy-seeming Dutch street design works, and is a work in progress (Dutch News)
    • The missing large housing our cities need (Alfred Twu)
    • Retrofitting parking garages to solve housing shortage (Route-Fifty)
    • Oklahoma bill would give drivers immunity for running down protestors (Oklahoman)
    • UC, Cal State police departments are much less diverse than student bodies (CalMatters)

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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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