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7:53 AM PDT on April 23, 2021

    • An Earth Day for Black lives (Heated)
    • Biden administration gives CA back its power to regulate vehicle emissions (SF Chronicle)
    • Biden pledges to slash greenhouse gases (Politico)
    • Senators discuss transportation funding, including transit operations (Transportation for America)
    • More on UC report on how to get carbon out of transportation (Green Car Congress)
    • Report: Lots of jobs coming as California transitions to electric transportation (Green Car Congress)
    • Newsom explores phasing out fracking permits (SF Chronicle)
    • New data show widescale use of vehicle surveillance, with little connection to safety (EFF)
    • The problem of traffic noise may not be intractable (Slate)
    • Options for upcycling and recycling bicycle gear (Bicycle Retailer)

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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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