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.
Recent Posts
More Information on Tamika Butler’s Resignation from CTC
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Why is one commissioner being held to such a high standard, when others don't seem to be?
Equity and Active Transportation Advocate Tamika Butler Resigns from California Transportation Commission
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It looked like there might finally be a commissioner on board who understood and could articulate the challenges of people living in poor and underserved communities. But Butler has resigned.
Wiener Reintroduces Housing-Transit Bill; Some Advocates Shout Him Down
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Note: GJEL Accident Attorneys regularly sponsors coverage on Streetsblog San Francisco and Streetsblog California. Unless noted in the story, GJEL Accident Attorneys is not consulted for the content or editorial direction of the sponsored content. Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) reintroduced his ambitious bill to increase housing near transit, S.B. 50, to a raucous crowd on the steps of […]
Legislators Announce a California Green New Deal
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A group of legislators today announced the introduction of a new bill–one of the first of the 2020 session–that they say will address climate change and equity in California. The bill would work in a manner similar to the way A.B. 32 and S.B. 32 addressed climate change: by creating targets, with deadlines, on a […]
Bay Area Air Quality Board Member Rides a Bike to Meeting. Why Is this Newsworthy?
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Why don't more public agency directors and staff, especially those working on climate and air quality issues, use - or encourage - active transportation?
CA’s Affordable Housing and Sustainable Communities Program Works
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New annual report outlines progress of program to increase affordable housing and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Other benefits: getting agencies to work together, creating new active transportation infrastructure, preventing displacement
California Planners Have Already Been Swapping VMT for LOS
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The state's "seismic" shift from measuring congestion to assessing new travel has been a glacial but inexorable change
Caltrans Will Account for New Driving Produced by its Transportation Projects
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A "profound change" in how transportation impacts are accounted for is coming, in line with efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and driving and increase biking, walking, and transit trips
Walk SF Urges Public to Push for Strong Recommendations on Setting Speed Limits
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Zero Fatalities Task Force report due soon, but since it has been meeting in closed-door sessions it's anyone's guess what its recommendations will be
Bike/Pedestrian Path on the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge Is Finally Open
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"Who will ride it?" The several thousand people who showed up to cross the San Francisco Bay on the path's opening day answered that question pretty clearly
Invest in What Makes it Easy to Travel by Healthy, Active, Sustainable Modes
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Bay Area community organizations and consultants release road map for a future of clean sustainable transportation
New Report Says Air Quality in U.S. – Especially in California – Is Getting Worse
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Researchers found evidence that increased use of natural gas and vehicle fuels are contributing to worsening air quality. Wildfires are a factor, but don't fully explain the increase.