Today’s Headlines

8:21 AM PDT on September 14, 2021

Traffic noise may increase risk of dementia (Medical News Today)
Five bills to make California streets safer and healthier (NRDC)
CA exploring vehicle miles traveled fee to replace gas tax (North Bay Business Journal)
SANDAG and Caltrans look for feedback on improvements to Coat, Canyons and Trails corridor - SR 52 (La Jolla Light)
Revolt of the delivery workers (Curbed)
E-bikes flatten the city (PubliCola)
E-bike tax credit gets eviscerated (Systemic Failure)
Census data shows where housing was built in Oakland - and where all the Black people went (Darrell Owens)
Sequoia fires, two of many burning in CA, threaten world's largest trees (SF Chronicle)
Eviction notices are rising in San Francisco (SF Chronicle)

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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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