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8:46 AM PDT on May 16, 2023

    • USDOT finds demand for funding to tear down freeways is very high (Urban Institute)
      • But the federal infrastructure bill is building freeways (E&E)
    • Megabus returns to major CA cities with daily trips (Yahoo, SF Examiner)
    • Newsom's budget cuts climate spending (Mercury News)
    • City of Pasadena, rather than support Bike Week, plans to enforce traffic rules this Friday, with the usual language about "shared responsibility for safety" (Pasadena Now)
    • How to quit cars (New Yorker)
    • Engineers need to account for the costs of traffic violence in their calculations (Speakeasy)
    • Study: Emissions from fossil fuel industry are causing excessive wildfires (Sacramento Bee)
    • Interview with EPA regional director on environmental justice (PPIC)

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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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