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Today’s Headlines

8:24 AM PDT on August 17, 2021

    • Federal government opens investigation into Tesla autopilot system (NY Times, NPR)
    • Bikes and buses should be the norm (Inside Climate News)
    • National City plans to turn a freeway underpass into a pedestrian plaza (San Diego Union Tribune)
    • Raleigh to make ebikes for couriers, deliveries (Financial Times)
    • Things that hold back climate policy (SP Global)
    • Climate change + pollution make each other - and their health impacts - worse (Grist)
    • Oh - and smoky air makes us more vulnerable to COVID, too (Grist)
    • Too much data? (Technology Review)
    • World Naked Bike Ride = nearly naked people riding bikes in Chicago (TimeOut)

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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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