Today’s Headlines

8:25 AM PDT on October 13, 2021

Oil spill? What oil spill? Toxic waste is everywhere (LA Times)
Is sucking the carbon out of the air just another oil company ruse? (Mother Jones)
The dangerous promises of self-driving cars (Bloomberg)
Billionaires who believe they can bend the natural world to accommodate current human society (Heated)
San Jose VTA upgrades to contactless fare payment, including bank cards (Kiosk Marketplace)
Pasadena city council wants electric buses sooner than later (Pasadena Now)
Barcelona offers free transit to people who ditch their cars (Treehugger)

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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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