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8:45 AM PST on February 9, 2022

    • Disturbing allegations of a back-room deal between San Jose mayor and CA Transportation Commissioner Carl Guardino (in his role as a business owner) (San Jose Spotlight)
    • USPS truck designer ensured they were just heavy enough to skirt emissions rules (Vice)
    • LA City Council wants to ban bike repairs on the street (LA Times)
    • California High Speed Rail Authority releases draft 2022 business plan (CAHSRA)
    • San Diego bike coalition launches real-time crash tracking app (Times of San Diego)
    • San Diego failed to get it together to apply for homeless housing funds (Voice of San Diego)
    • Tenant protection bill (Ellis Act adjustments) has failed despite support (CalMatters)
    • Using lasers to encourage crows to move along is a bad idea (Mercury News)

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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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