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8:37 AM PDT on May 19, 2023

    • People across the country want transit and walkable communities (SF Gate)
    • Americans walk less frequently and under more dangerous conditions than people in other countries (Virginia Tech, fix your headline)
    • Maybe COVID made biking better (AP)
    • E-bikes, fifty years from now (Outside)
    • More on Oakland pop-up crosswalk (Oaklandside)
    • SANDAG budget spells out priorities, including bikes and rail (Mass Transit)
    • Some bills were killed yesterday (LA Times)
    • Watsonville plans affordable housing above its transit center (Santa Cruz Local)

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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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