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8:31 AM PDT on March 23, 2021

    • The power of bike education (Yes!)
    • Biden team prepares $3T stimulus bill (NY Times)
    • California agencies could reap windfall from Biden infrastructure plan (LA Times)
    • Buttigieg: We should be designing for people, not cars (Forbes)
    • CA senators urge Biden to set a date to end sales of gas-powered vehicles (Detroit News,  Law360)
    • Analyze outcomes of transportation funding, not just how much there is (Transportation for America)
    • California ramping up highway widening projects: In Sacramento, it's Highway 50 (Sacramento Bee)
    • L.A.'s transit advocates' hard work is paying off (Transit Center)
    • San Jose connects parking policy with climate (Greenbelt)
    • Diverging diamond dystopia (CNU)
    • Are California oil companies complying with the law? Who knows? (Desert Sun)
    • Oil companies begin their annual meetings, reluctantly pretending to care about the environment (Union of Concerned Scientists)

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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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