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8:04 AM PDT on August 16, 2021

    • Hundreds protest reopening of Great Highway in SF to cars (KRON4)
    • Foothill Gold Line is more than a quarter complete (Patch)
    • San Jose's light rail is still out of service, making returning student commutes much harder (Patch)
    • New coalition in San Diego focused on speeding up transition to electric transportation (California News Times)
    • HSR authority to discuss Bakersfield-to-Palmdale route this week (Tehachapi News)
    • E-cargo bikes are faster than delivery vans, by a lot (Electrek)
    • The consequences of cars - and of celebrating classic cars for a week in Monterey County (Monterey County Weekly)
    • New US Bicycle Route designations, including in California (Lonely Planet)
    • What if the Newsom recall succeeds? (CalMatters)

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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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