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
Creating Vitally Needed Hand-Washing Stations for Homeless Residents
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LavaMaeX's Hand Washing For All campaign aims to teach people how to make, maintain hand-washing stations to help stop spread of coronavirus
Assembly Returns; Transportation Committee Takes on High-Speed Rail, Relief for Parking Debt
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Rather than focus on fallout from COVID-19, the Assembly Transportation Committee was bent on reining in the High-Speed Rail Authority
Rich City Rides Shows How to Take Care of Your Community
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The bike/skate shop/community space hosts a youth-led Bike Club, whose members have been helping the school district pack and distribute meals to students who can't access them because school is not in session.
San Diego Study: Transit Remains Essential for Essential Workers
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Circulate San Diego used census data to determine that many of the people still riding transit are going to and from jobs deemed "essential" under stay-at-home rules
California Prepares For July 1 Planning Shift from Car Delay to Induced Travel
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Starting July 1, the California Environmental Quality Act will require projects in California to account for how many new miles of automobile travel they produce (VMT), rather than how much congestion they produce (LOS)
Real-Time Data Shows Stay-at-Home Orders May Be Saving Lives in More Ways Than One
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"The Governor’s shelter-in-place order may have provided unexpected reductions in injuries and harm from traffic accidents."
Study: Highway Pollution Exposure Could Be Linked to Higher COVID-19 Death Rates
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In California, the people living next to highways, major roads, and polluting industries--and thus subjected to higher levels of pollution--tend to be low-income communities of color.
Stop Touching Pedestrian “Beg Buttons”
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L.A. is actually disconnecting them in some places where a lot of people are walking. Other Californian cities aren't (yet) thinking about them
Caltrans Claims SHOPP Projects Include Complete Streets Elements. But Are They Speaking the Same Language?
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What does Caltrans mean by "Complete Streets" anyway? The answer is not easy to find
You Are Not Stuck in Traffic, You Are Traffic: This Is Up to All of Us, Says Newsom
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Controlling the pandemic is everyone's individual responsibility, and right now staying away from each other is the one strategy that can help avoid deepening the crisis.
COVID-19: What’s Happening with Transit in California?
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This is just the beginning; expect more changes as the days go by. For now, transit operators are still providing essential service, with only a few adjustments.
Bay Area Locks Down, Non-essential Travel Banned, Biking Okay–for Now
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Ride, safely. Just stay away from one another