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8:39 AM PST on January 14, 2022

    • Can only tragic deaths make communities take traffic dangers seriously? (Diablo)
    • San Francisco has begun lowering speed limits on some streets (SF Gate)
    • California Budget and Policy Center and Legislative Analyst Office release analyses of Governor's budget proposal
    • Newsom touts transportation, infrastructure elements of budget proposal (San Jose Spotlight)
    • Assembly Speaker Rendon signals that he'll keep trying to kill high speed rail (Mercury News)
    • And out the other side of his mouth, Rendon complains that California is no longer a climate leader (KCRW)
    • Spin to suspend e-scooter services in Sacramento, other cities (Mass Transit)
    • Don't Look Up is missing a real call to action (In These Times)
    • OMG! "Environmentalists" think nuclear energy is "clean" (Grist)
    • More legislators decline to run for re-election (CalMatters)
    • Bike mechanics plead with manufacturers to stop making crap bikes (Vice)
    • Every California county has high COVID rates (KTLA)

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Melanie Curry

Streetsblog California editor Melanie Curry has been thinking about transportation, and how to improve conditions for bicyclists, since her early days commuting by bike to UCLA long ago. She was Managing Editor at the East Bay Express, and edited Access Magazine for the University of California Transportation Center. She also earned her Masters in City Planning from UC Berkeley.

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