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8:17 AM PST on February 23, 2022

    • Complete streets spur economic development (Planetizen)
    • Democrats balk at idea of a gas tax holiday (Planetizen)
    • At the federal level, costs of pausing the gas tax would be high (Politico)
    • Oopsie! After declaring CA high-speed rail dead, Railway Age now admits it is not
    • And CA HSR is already delivering economic benefits (Mass Transit)
    • Caltrans District 5 (Central Coast) releases its Active Transportation Plan (Benito Link)
    • California Bicycle Coalition warns that A.B. 371 would kill bike, scooter share
    • Long-range electric buses make Silver Line all the way to San Pedro possible (Mass Transit)
    • Bill would eliminate parking requirements near transit statewide (Abundant Housing LA)
    • Court rules federal agencies can't use social cost of carbon in their climate calculations (Washington Post)
    • Sacramentans to vote on outlawing homelessness, basically. As if. (Cap Radio)
    • Remote work will change cities (Pew)
    • State still battling over Uber, Lyft driver classifications (SF Chronicle)

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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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