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8:12 AM PDT on September 8, 2021

    • San Diego pledged to reduce car use - so why is it still widening freeways? (KPBS)
    • Oil companies drop lawsuit to force CA to "consider the benefits of natural gas" in climate policies (LA Times)
    • Long-stalled pedestrian bridge in Santa Rosa may not be quite dead (Press Democrat)
    • In-car infotainment is a big distraction (Slate)
    • No snow on Mt Shasta means rivers of mud quickly changing the landscape (LA Times)
    • A park? Or an off-road vehicle area? State moves toward the former (SF Chronicle)
    • Some Alameda County transportation projects that just got state funding (Pleasanton Weekly)
    • A look at Spain's high-speed rail network (CNN)
    • Low vaccination rates in the Central Valley contribute to hospitals overwhelmed with COVID cases (LA Times)

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Melanie Curry

Streetsblog California editor Melanie Curry has been thinking about transportation, and how to improve conditions for bicyclists, since her early days commuting by bike to UCLA long ago. She was Managing Editor at the East Bay Express, and edited Access Magazine for the University of California Transportation Center. She also earned her Masters in City Planning from UC Berkeley.

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