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Melanie Curry

@StreetsblogCal, @currymel Melanie Curry
Streetsblog California editor Melanie Curry has been thinking about transportation, and how to improve conditions for bicyclists, since her early days commuting by bike to UCLA long ago. She was Managing Editor at the East Bay Express, and edited Access Magazine for the University of California Transportation Center. She also earned her Masters in City Planning from UC Berkeley.

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Legislative Update: A Few Bills on Transit

By Melanie Curry | Mar 1, 2021 | No Comments
Bay Bridge bus service, bus lane/stop violation camera enforcement
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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Berkeley Moves Towards Eliminating Single-Family Zoning

By Melanie Curry | Feb 25, 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.
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Legislative Update: Bills About Bikes

By Melanie Curry | Feb 23, 2021 | No Comments
Traffic safety, treating a stop sign as a yield sign, e-bike rebates
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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 CA Air Board Task Force on Carbon Offsets

By Melanie Curry | Feb 12, 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.
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A Conversation with New Assembly Transportation Chair Laura Friedman

By Melanie Curry | Feb 1, 2021 | No Comments
Assemblymember Laura Friedman talks about her new position as Senate Transportation Committee chair, and about her thoughts on furthering sustainable transportation in California.
Photo courtesy of BART
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Did Governor Newsom Forget About Transit Workers in Vaccine Rollout?

By Melanie Curry | Jan 28, 2021 | No Comments
Until yesterday, transit workers were recognized as essential workers who should be prioritized for vaccinations against COVID. Then state plans changed, and transit workers are left wondering why they've been left out.
Chanell Fletcher, new Deputy Executive Officer for Environmental Justice at the California Air Resources Board
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Air Resources Board Elevates Environmental Justice to Executive Level

By Melanie Curry | Jan 22, 2021 | No Comments
ClimatePlan's Chanell Fletcher, as new Deputy Executive Officer for Environmental Justice, will oversee environmental justice, Community Air Monitoring Program (A.B. 617), and more.
One Untrash work party's collection. Image courtesy Untrash.it
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Untrashing the Planet, One Corner at a Time

By Melanie Curry | Jan 6, 2021 | No Comments
Cleaning up means working together, but also just getting out there with gloves and bags and picking up the trash.
Still from Divided Highways, showing the glory and destructive nature of highway mania.
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Caltrans Statement on Equity: What Does it Mean?

By Melanie Curry | Dec 23, 2020 | No Comments
Caltrans makes a promise, and communities and advocates will need to hold them accountable to it. It won't be easy.
Assemblymember Laura Friedman addresses a joint hearing on micromobility regulations. Image: screengrab from CA Assembly
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Two New Transportation Leaders in California Legislature

By Melanie Curry | Dec 14, 2020 | No Comments
Assembly Speaker Rendon surprises observers by replacing Jim Frazier with Laura Friedman; Senate President Atkins appoints Lena Gonzalez to chair left empty by departure of Jim Beall.
California Air Resources Board chair nominee Liane Randolph. Image: CPUC
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Governor Newsom Appoints New Chair to Air Resources Board

By Melanie Curry | Dec 11, 2020 | No Comments
His choice is current CPUC commissioner Liane Randolph.
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