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Today’s Headlines

8:03 AM PDT on April 17, 2023

    • Walking around Los Angeles (Pedestrian 32)
    • Cargobikes are more efficient for that last mile of delivery (Cycling Utah)
    • New express lanes celebrated in San Mateo (KQED)
    • The goal should be low-cost, high-quality transportation (not free fares) (The Conversation)
    • BART still trying to build fare gates to prevent fare evasion (SF Chronicle)
    • Musk under pressure from US Senators over images recorded in vehicles (Reuters)
    • The myth of local control (Planetizen)
    • CA legislature trying to pass bills that would require corporations to report their climate emissions (Kirkland)

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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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