Today’s Headlines

8:30 AM PST on December 21, 2021

California nominee for NHTSA director is "gravely concerned" about traffic death trends (Detroit News)
California isn't going green fast enough (The Fern)
Monterey-Salinas Transit to - slowly - transition to zero-emission fleet (Monterey Herald)
USEPA issues more stringent rules on vehicle efficiency standards (Office of Attorney General)
A bicycle can change a refugee's life (Yahoo)
Berlin attracts public transit users with hemp tickets riders can eat "to take the edge off" (Reuters)

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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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