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Today’s Headlines

8:00 AM PDT on May 11, 2021

    • Bicycles saved my life: Rich City Rides' Najari Smith (Christian Science Monitor)
    • Peatónito, Mexico City's pedestrian superhero, is about to graduate from UCLA (Curbed)
    • Mr. Roadshow explains the proposed safety stop law (Mercury News)
    • Marin considers putting pipeline back on bridge - but now there's a bike lane there (Systemic Failure)
    • Securing an equitable, clean transportation future (NRDC)
    • Electrifying transportation would lower GHGs, save money, and create jobs (CalMatters)
    • "I wasn't distracted" - Ohio senator models less-than-ideal Zoom behavior (NY Times)
    • There's federal money for housing homeless people, but few are taking it (Grist)
    • Newsom proposes a big stimulus package (CalMatters)
    • Dark side of carbon credits: Huge profits for a nonprofit (Technology Review)
    • Barriers to achieving US climate goals are more political than technical (Brookings)
    • It really is infrastructure week (The Verge, Washington Post)
    • Is California law on police use of force making any difference? (CalMatters)

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Melanie Curry

Streetsblog California editor Melanie Curry has been thinking about transportation, and how to improve conditions for bicyclists, since her early days commuting by bike to UCLA long ago. She was Managing Editor at the East Bay Express, and edited Access Magazine for the University of California Transportation Center. She also earned her Masters in City Planning from UC Berkeley.

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