Today’s Headlines

8:30 AM PST on December 20, 2022

USPS commits to 100% electric vehicles in response to public pressure (Sierra Club)
State DOTs are split on whether they can help reduce emissions - but attitudes are shifting (Washington Post)
Searching for a better measure of transportation efficiency than Level of Service (Reston Now)
2022 in review: Downtowns, transportation, climate change (Planetizen)
Bay Area ferry riders like their commute (KTVU)
How bike shops are navigating the fallout from the pandemic (Outside Online)
Ahem, California: Denver used e-bike vouchers to get thousands of people out of their cars (Washington Post)
What's next after the failure of Prop 30? (Capitol Weekly)
Marin officials want to elevate Highway 37 but push for a "temporary" widening too (Marin Independent Journal)
In San Diego, outdoor dining vs Coastal Commission obsession with parking (San Diego Union Tribune)

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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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