Today’s Headlines

8:01 AM PST on December 1, 2021

Bakersfield is bad for pedestrians (Turnto23)
L.A. to close the last gap in Expo bikeway (NBC)
Making Oakland's streets safer for all (Oaklandside)
Berkeley considers eliminating free parking on residential streets near busy commercial corridors (Berkeleyside)
CA toxic sites at risk of flooding, mapped (LA Times)
Where will all that infrastructure money go? (NextCity)
The right way to invest in walking and biking (USPIRG)

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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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