Today’s Headlines

8:26 AM PDT on November 3, 2021

World leaders at climate summit don't seem to realize that bicycling is an effective carbon reduction technology (Treehugger, Forbes)
Build Back Better also focuses on electric cars, not bikes (Fast Company)
Who killed LA streetcars? We did (LA Times)
Ballot measure filed to raise taxes for transit expansion in San Diego (Mass Transit)
Updated federal road design manual "enshrines dangerous practices into law" (The Urbanist)
What is PM2.5 and why is it bad? (SF Chronicle)
LA leaders are trying to solve homelessness by banning it (LA Times)
Derailed housing project in SF has the whole state in an uproar (SF Chronicle)
Bay Area sees growing COVID cases, shifting mask mandates (SF Chronicle)
Mexico City debates pros, cons of remote work (Slate)

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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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