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8:30 AM PDT on April 5, 2021

    • Santa Cruz still pondering plan for electric passenger rail (Mass Transit Magazine)
    • Costa Mesa seeks feedback on pedestrian hazards (LA Times)
    • Time to get rid of diesel back-up generators (CalMatters)
    • Newsom asked for a bill to ban fracking, may get much more than that (LA Times)
    • Biden's infrastructure bill addresses inequality (Politico)
    • The plan only meets part of the huge need (Urban Wire)
    • How it could affect California's high-speed rail (Mercury News)
    • Will people actually "go back" to mass transit?? (Autoblog)
    • It's an "uphill task" to get Americans to switch to trains and buses, says the Business Times
    • Can Biden change our car-loving habits??? (New York Times)
    • Hot Cars asks whether a tax credit could ever get people out of cars and onto e-bikes
    • How the infrastructure plan could pass (Vox)

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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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