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8:11 AM PDT on April 9, 2021

    • Do carpool lanes reduce traffic? Or induce more of it? (Spectrum News)
    • Highway 1 along Big Sur coast to reopen by April 30 (KTLA5)
    • Huntington Beach to allow e-bikes on bike path (LA Times)
    • CHP to conduct an "enhanced primary collision factor enforcement campaign" on Hwy 101 - that is, ticket speeders and other law breakers (Lake County News)
    • Fresno needs zero-emission vehicles for all (Fresno Bee)
    • Proposed Tejon Ranch housing development loses a legal battle - had claimed that cap-and-trade would somehow undo any GHG emissions it induced (LA Times)
    • The mess that is the Ballona Wetlands natural gas storage field (LA Times)

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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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