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Today’s Headlines

8:22 AM PDT on May 9, 2022

    • It is so easy to forget about climate change (IPCC)
    • A standoff on high speed rail (CalMatters)
    • CA legislators urged to approve high-speed rail funds (Railway News)
    • Labor unions are throwing their weight around to the detriment of housing, transportation (CalMatters)
    • City of Fresno is defensive about its planning process (Fresno Bee)
    • New, improved crosswalk in Santa Barbara (Noozhawk)
    • The benefits of participating in Bike Month (VC Star)
    • Bike Index reaches 800,000 bikes registered: helping find stolen bikes (Bicycle Retailer)

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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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