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Today’s Headlines

8:25 AM PDT on November 2, 2021

    • Santa Clara VTA considers using eminent domain for BART station site (Mercury News)
    • Public transportation can save the world, if we let it (The Verge)
    • Hundreds of traffic stops last year ended with cops killing unarmed people (NY Times)
    • In housing, what's old is new again (Granola Shotgun)
    • Podcast: California's top housing officials on housing affordability, accountability (CalMatters)
    • USDOT, CA launch new supply chain infrastructure program (Engineering News-Record)
    • Paris: The City of Bikes (Grist)
    • The weird and glorious celebration that is Bike Kill (Gothamist)

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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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