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8:35 AM PDT on April 5, 2023

    • America has invested heavily in parking, and it's killing the economy (Business Insider)
    • Many people have very large auto loans, and struggle to pay them off (Sacramento Bee)
    • The connections between cars, debt, and jail (Public Books)
    • Can public transit recover? (CalMatters)
    • EVs won't save us - we need sustainable transit (Chicago Policy Review)
    • SFMTA drops proposal to make Clay Street transit lane permanent (SFGate)
    • Santa Clara VTA moves to seize properties for San Jose BART project (East Bay Times)
    • April Fools' Day pranks by transit agencies (The Buzzer)
    • Six minutes on a bike can boost your brain power (Bicycle Network)
    • This is what ebikes can do for everyone (Diablo Magazine)
    • Picking apart Mitt Romney's claim that bike lanes increase emissions (Mother Jones)
    • What cities can do about the most dangerous drivers (Bloomberg)

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Melanie Curry

Streetsblog California editor Melanie Curry has been thinking about transportation, and how to improve conditions for bicyclists, since her early days commuting by bike to UCLA long ago. She was Managing Editor at the East Bay Express, and edited Access Magazine for the University of California Transportation Center. She also earned her Masters in City Planning from UC Berkeley.

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