Today’s Headlines

8:43 AM PDT on March 20, 2023

It's a golden age for electric cargo bikes (The Verge)
Support AB 825 for safe passage for people on bikes (CalBike)
The battle for open streets (Planetizen)
Inglewood transit connector would uproot businesses (OC Register)
Bill would streamline private student housing developments (Daily Cal)
Cars are expensive (LAist)
A lot of people can't afford to drive, in a system that is built for driving (Salon)
The New Yorker interview with LA Mayor Karen Bass
US banks are sacrificing poor communities to the climate crisis (The Guardian)

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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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