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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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Melanie Curry@StreetsblogCal

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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