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8:35 AM PST on January 9, 2023

    • Why do we keep widening highways when we know it only makes traffic worse? (NY Times)
    • S.F. inaugurates long-awaited subway extension (SF Chronicle)
    • National Park Service seeks public comment on its long range transportation plan (GoldRushCam)
    • Facebook has given up on reviving the Dumbarton rail bridge (NY Times)
    • Hundreds of deserted oil and gas wells in SoCal could soon get plugged. It's a drop in the bucket (Daily Bulletin)
    • Need a new year's resolution? Try walking (MinnPost)
    • National League of Cities creates a training program for small cities without much capacity for grant applications (Route Fifty)

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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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