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8:29 AM PDT on April 19, 2023

    • "Complete Streets" are being co-opted to build unsafe streets (Smart Growth America)
    • Bay Area leaders rally for public transit funding from state (ABC7)
    • Instead of a bus, San Jose plans an expensive system of robot cars to connect its airport and train stations (Mercury News)
    • Elon Musk plans to start charging transit agencies - and others - a lot of money to use Twitter to provide live updates (Planetizen)
    • Cars don't have to rule Culver City, or L.A. (LA Times)
    • Highway construction costs have risen 50% in two years (Eno)
    • Fourth and fifth graders teach kindergartners how to ride a bike (KFYR)
    • Stop fighting local housing projects (Mother Jones)
    • What court ruling on gas stove ban means (Energy Wire)

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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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