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8:32 AM PDT on November 1, 2021

    • Five million are dead from COVID (LA Times)
    • Jaywalking laws criminalize walking (Daily Breeze)
    • Seniors struggle to cross the street (NBC Palm Springs)
    • SANDAG approves per-mile road usage tax - as a concept (Patch)
    • Proposed widening of I-205, connecting I-580 to I-5: comments due soon (Independent News)
    • The latest back-and-forth on e-bikes in the Build Back Better plan (The Verge)
    • California looks for ways to force local governments to build more housing (CalMatters)

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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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