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8:47 AM PDT on May 2, 2022

    • Good morning! It's Bike Month!! Which is a great time to remember to prioritize the climate crisis (IPCC)
    • Highway crashes are far more expensive than congestion (Public Square)
    • S.F.'s new BRT proves that giving transit priority makes transit work better (SF Chronicle)
    • More on L.A.'s new "rapid bus" (LAist)
    • In San Diego, scooter use is up again... so city plans a "crackdown" (San Diego Union Tribune)
    • Introducing Sonoma County's Bike Champion of the Year (Patch)
    • Napa County embraces Bike Month (Napa Valley Register)
    • Even Texas is revolting against freeways (The Guardian)
    • L.A. mayoral candidates debate public transit, homelessness (CSULA)
      • ...a forum from which BLM activists were dragged away (LA Times)
    • COVID cases on the rise (LA Times)

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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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