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Melanie Curry

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Bikes parked in front of the California State Capitol building in Sacramento

Legislative Update: Transit Boards, High-Speed Rail, New Agencies

By Melanie Curry | Mar 5, 2021 | No Comments
Continuing our very early look at upcoming California bills
Bikes parked in front of the California State Capitol building in Sacramento

Legislative Update: A Few Bills on Transit

By Melanie Curry | Feb 26, 2021 | No Comments
Bay Bridge bus service, bus lane/stop violation camera enforcement
The road near where Tiger Woods crashed got the blame for being too easy to speed along. Image from Google Streetview

Was That an Accident?

By Melanie Curry | Feb 25, 2021 | No Comments
When a popular celebrity crashes his car, it could bring needed attention to a safety problem. But is it the right kind of attention?
It's not much of a stretch to allow duplexes like this everywhere in Berkeley. They're already there. Photo by Melanie Curry/Streetsblog
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City of Berkeley Is 2nd CA City to Move Towards Eliminating Single-Family Zoning

By Melanie Curry | Feb 24, 2021 | No Comments
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.
Bikes parked in front of the California State Capitol building in Sacramento

Legislative Update: Bills About Bikes and Traffic Safety

By Melanie Curry | Feb 23, 2021 | No Comments
Traffic safety, treating a stop sign as a yield sign, e-bike rebates
BabyCargobike
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Bay Area Begins to Roll Out E-Bike Incentives Under Clean Cars 4 All

By Melanie Curry | Feb 18, 2021 | No Comments
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
Bikes parked in front of the California State Capitol building in Sacramento
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CA Bill Would Ban New Fracking Permits and Phase Out the Practice

By Melanie Curry | Feb 17, 2021 | No Comments
It also takes up the unfinished arguments around the state about buffers around active oil wells near homes and schools
Photo by Jesse Marquez, via Ensia
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Environmental Justice Members Resign from CARB Task Force on Carbon Offsets

By Melanie Curry | Feb 11, 2021 | No Comments
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.
Separated bike lane, trees, bioswale; people walking and biking
This post is supported by GJEL Accident Attorneys

Active Transportation Program Cycle 5 Staff Recommendations Released

By Melanie Curry | Feb 9, 2021 | No Comments
Statewide and Small Urban and Rural recommendations made; Trend towards fewer, larger projects continues
Photo from the Dutch Cycling Embassy

What’s a Bike Highway? Caltrans Wants Your Thoughts

By Melanie Curry | Feb 8, 2021 | No Comments
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.
Bicycle Film Festival

Online Now! The Bicycle Film Festival

By Melanie Curry | Feb 5, 2021 | No Comments
The Bicycle Film Festival is a "curated collection" of short films from around the world about bikes and the people who love them.
Pete Buttegieg
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Why Buttigieg’s Midwest Roots Might Make Him a Great USDOT Secretary

By Melanie Curry | Feb 4, 2021 | No Comments
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.
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