Melanie Curry
Recent Posts
Legislative Update: Transit Boards, High-Speed Rail, New Agencies
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Continuing our very early look at upcoming California bills
Legislative Update: A Few Bills on Transit
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Bay Bridge bus service, bus lane/stop violation camera enforcement
Was That an Accident?
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When a popular celebrity crashes his car, it could bring needed attention to a safety problem. But is it the right kind of attention?
City of Berkeley Is 2nd CA City to Move Towards Eliminating Single-Family Zoning
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The legacy of exclusionary zoning is that it deprived certain communities the luxury of stability and wealth accumulation, which has left them more vulnerable to displacement as their neighborhoods become more attractive and accessible to wealthier outsiders.
Legislative Update: Bills About Bikes and Traffic Safety
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Traffic safety, treating a stop sign as a yield sign, e-bike rebates
Bay Area Begins to Roll Out E-Bike Incentives Under Clean Cars 4 All
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Income- and zip-code qualifying households in the Bay Area can exchange an old gas guzzler for an electric cargo bike, or several e-bikes and transit passes; other regions will also eventually launch their programs
CA Bill Would Ban New Fracking Permits and Phase Out the Practice
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It also takes up the unfinished arguments around the state about buffers around active oil wells near homes and schools
Environmental Justice Members Resign from CARB Task Force on Carbon Offsets
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Task force is about to issue a report recommending ways to expand the problematic but profitable offsets program. Advocates wanted to focus on ways to make it work for the climate and environment.
Active Transportation Program Cycle 5 Staff Recommendations Released
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Statewide and Small Urban and Rural recommendations made; Trend towards fewer, larger projects continues
What’s a Bike Highway? Caltrans Wants Your Thoughts
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San Francisco Bay Area's Caltrans District 4 has some questions for bike riders, and potential riders, about what they think would make a good bike highway.
Online Now! The Bicycle Film Festival
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The Bicycle Film Festival is a "curated collection" of short films from around the world about bikes and the people who love them.
Why Buttigieg’s Midwest Roots Might Make Him a Great USDOT Secretary
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Is Buttigieg a hayseed Hoosier who wouldn't know a headway from a harvester, or a political ecoterrorist hellbent on leaving rural American in the lurch and laughing all the way to the Amtrak station? Neither: He's a guy from South Bend.