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8:28 AM PDT on August 30, 2021

    • San Jose's light rail is back (and football fans are happy) (Mercury News)
    • San Jose wants residents to ditch the car (Patch)
    • Lompoc wants input on street improvements (Santa Barbara News-Press)
    • National City community leaders rally for environmental justice (The Star News)
    • Pedestrians hold the key to sustainable cities (Forbes)
    • CARB considering changes to EV rebate programs (Spectrum News)
    • How the U.S. can cut GHGs (Harvard Magazine)
    • All fossil fuel products - energy, plastics, toxic chemicals - must end (NY Times)
    • Is L.A. slow-walking studying how to replace cops in traffic enforcement? (LA Times)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF

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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