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8:35 AM PDT on May 17, 2023

    • Is this the year California okays speed cameras? (LA Times)
    • What's missing from Newsom's budget proposal (CalBike)
    • Congressmembers urge NHTSA to prioritize pedestrian safety in vehicle ratings (Rep. Raskin)
    • King County explores fare-free transit (NBC)
    • Planned bike lanes in Berkeley fall victim to ... something very murky (Berkeleyside)
    • Taylor Swift is giving transit a (temporary) boost (Governing)
    • What Brussels learned - and can teach - about reducing car dependency (Bloomberg)
    • Why downtown stores are closing (it's not because of crime) (CNN)
    • Beautification and photo-ops vs radical reimagination of cities (Free Press Journal)

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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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