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8:34 AM PDT on April 6, 2023

    • Ray LaHood: Feds need to go big, and fund CA high-speed rail (CalMatters)
    • Waymo and Cruise want to expand imperfect driverless taxis in San Francisco (AP)
    • Public transit is at a pivotal moment (CalMatters)
    • LA Metro says "it's not that loud" but its anti-lingering music IS LOUD (LA Times)
    • SFMTA approves controversial center-running bike lane (SF Standard)
    • Clearing out homeless camps just hides the problem, doesn't solve it (CalMatters)
    • How to spot oil companies' "paltering" [lies] (Heated)
    • More on EPA waiver to California on rule requiring trucks to be electric by 2035 (Environmental Defense Fund)
    • Why California leads the nation on EVs and emission reductions (Jefferson Public Radio)
    • Manhattan Beach finally formally apologizes for seizing Bruce's Beach (Mercury News)
    • Shasta County throws out voting machines but has no replacement system (The Guardian)
    • London has a cargo bike action plan (Intelligent Transport)

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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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