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Today’s Headlines

8:37 AM PDT on August 17, 2022

    • Dire effects expected as Mediterranean Sea heats up (AP News)
    • Drought is pushing power grid to the brink (Vox)
    • L.A. is spending billions to make climate change and transportation worse (LA Times)
    • L.A. needs bus-only lanes (CityWatchLA)
    • Safety changes coming to a freeway interchange in Marin County (MarinBike)
    • How BART is learning, and teaching, about early earthquake warning systems (BART)
    • How Oakland is replacing cops with unarmed emergency responders (Oaklandside)
    • California needs a red-eye train between LA and SF (SF Gate)
    • More on Bay Area's universal transit pass pilot (Mass Transit)
    • What will the climate bill actually do? (Christian Science Monitor)

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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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