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2023 was the year of the e-bike; Biden celebrates $8 billion in passenger rail funding; What's so scary about transit riders? More

By Melanie Curry

8:38 AM PST on December 11, 2023

SANDAG encourages transit, bicycle use with incentives to employers (Times of San Diego)
2023 was the year of the e-bike (Fast Company)
What's so scary about transit riders? (PubliCola)
Bogota tried to solve gridlock for all of us (NY Times)
Biden administration celebrates $8 billion in passenger railroad infrastructure (Route Fifty, Spectrum)
Applying environmental justice principles in West Oakland (The Field)
Avoiding the harms that infrastructure can wreak (Governing)
COP28: President pushing until the end for softening efforts to reduce oil and gas use in final agreement (The Energy Mix)
CA "Climate Resiliency" funds will pay for a two-lane left turn channel on a highway (GoldRushCam)
High rises in Santa Cruz? (LA Times)

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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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