Friday’s Headlines

Today is International Women's Day. Women are increasing their numbers in the CA legislature; Build good bike infrastructure, and people will ride; How corporations won the fight to keep their polluting secret; More

By Melanie Curry

8:02 AM PST on March 8, 2024

How corporate America won the fight to keep its pollution secret (Heated)
Major sporting events offer transit a chance to shine (San Jose Spotlight)
Federal money available for transit (Bloomberg)
Study: Build good bike infrastructure, and people will use it (Momentum Mag)
The number of women - and women of color - in California's legislature is likely to grow (CalMatters)
Using AI to prevent homelessness (CalMatters)
Big downtown LA development gets a boost from Governor Newsom (LA Times)
Children are starving to death in Gaza (AP)

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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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