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Today’s Headlines

9:03 AM PDT on August 10, 2022

    • Newsom urges legislature to speed up climate efforts (CalMatters)
    • Street-level air pollution from traffic linked to higher emergency room costs (EDF)
    • There is still hope for a tax break on e-bikes (The Verge)
    • Money for California from federal climate bill (Mercury News)
    • Oakland plans an e-bike library (Oaklandside)
    • Bicyclists protest LA's ban on selling bike parts on sidewalks (Daily News)
    • Spectacular multi-car crash brings murder charges (LA Times)
    • LA ponders reining in cars (LA Times)
    • Musk is just a disrupter, not a builder (NY Magazine)
    • The "tech revolution" has done very little to improve transportation (Gizmodo)
    • Studying very local heat levels from a truck (Wired)
    • San Francisco's housing approval process under state scrutiny (SF Chronicle)

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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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