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8:25 AM PDT on September 1, 2021

    • Modesto offers an online tool to explore, weigh in on improving walking and biking (Modesto Bee)
    • Merced County builds an automotive research and testing site (Merced County Times)
    • Court rules that Caltrans can go ahead and widen a highway next to old-growth redwoods (Courthouse News)
    • A different court rules that nope, loss of parking does not equate to environmental impact (JD Supra)
    • Free parking is killing cities (Bloomberg)
    • BART gets new escalators! (BART)
    • Developers promise community benefits, but communities don't always get them (Shelterforce)
    • American environmentalism has failed because it is marginal to people's lives (The Reader)

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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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