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Today’s Headlines

8:15 AM PDT on June 2, 2021

    • COVID broke transit; can it be remade better? (Politico)
    • Free transit won't solve everything (Slate)
    • Oil industry claims jobs are more important than clean air and racial justice (SF Chronicle)
    • Bring back San Francisco's Great Bicycle Adventure (SF Chronicle)
    • CA plans "massive scale-up" of EV charging infrastructure (Newsweek)
    • Well, anyway, Pope Francis has ordered an electric Popemobile (Tech Crunch)
    • Amtrak has a 15-year vision (Railway Age)
    • Freeways without futures (Congress for New Urbanism)
      • So tear them down; but then what? (Vice)
    • The carbon footprint of tap water (Treehugger)

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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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