Today’s Headlines

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

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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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