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Melanie Curry

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Driving

Feds: Megacar Owners Actually Drove More in 2020 than 2019

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Advocacy

Does America Need a ‘Mobility Bill of Rights’?

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Autonomous/Automated Vehicles

Automatic Braking Doesn’t Work on Dark Streets, Where One-Third of Peds Deaths Happen

Jeff Wood

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Talking Headways Podcast: A Grassroots Bus-Network Redesign

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Safety

New Fed. Law Requires Some (But Not All!) States to Improve Bike/Walk Safety

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Gas Tax

Like Newsom, Illinois Governor Also Wants to Pause Scheduled Gas Tax Hike

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STUDY: 20 Is Plenty — But Signs Alone Don’t Always Get Drivers to Slow Down

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‘It Ain’t 94 Percent’: NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy Discusses the Role of Human Error in Car Crashes

<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrick-siegman-412b33209">Patrick Siegman</a> is a transportation planner and economist. He is the founding principal of Siegman &amp; Associates. His work on parking reform includes leading the Downtown Berkeley Parking and Transportation Demand Management plan and the Downtown Oakland Parking Study, and serving as an advisor to San Francisco’s SFpark program. UCLA Professor Donald Shoup, the eminent parking scholar, calls him “the first Shoupista,” for his early work implementing Shoup’s ideas.