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8:35 AM PDT on April 11, 2023

    • Tracks north of San Diego finally repaired, rail service to return (AP, San Diego Union Tribune)
    • Sonoma County distributes sales tax funding to public transit agencies (Press Democrat)
    • Bay Area hikes you can get to via transit (Mercury News)
    • How to get more riders on buses and trains (San Diego Union Tribune)
    • California zero-emission mandates gain momentum (LA Times)
    • Lots of videos of driverless cars clogging the streets of San Francisco (Wired)
    • Getting to a post-car future (Salon)
    • Improving gender equity in planning (Planetizen)
    • We can't seem to figure out how to enforce traffic laws (NPR)
    • Police have to release video from body-worn cameras, but they heavily edit it first (CalMatters)

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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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