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8:45 AM PDT on May 9, 2023

    • Speculating on Governor Newsom's budget plan (Sacramento Bee)
    • How to make Southern California safer for bicycle riders (ABC7)
    • Commuters ditched transit and now it's in crisis (Bloomberg)
    • Putting Big Oil's profits in perspective (Heated)
    • LA Metro welcomes 1000 new transit operators (The Source)
    • Butte County transit transitioning to zero-emission (Chicoer)
    • Study on having civilians conduct traffic stops finally set for release (LA Times)
    • Questions and answers about EPA's new power plant rules (ClimateWire)
    • No more places to sit, even in Micky D's (Fast Company)
    • A flooded California town feels ignored (Guardian)

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Melanie Curry
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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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