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
Dangerous by Design 2020: California, Like Most States, Is Not Improving Safety
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California set targets to INCREASE deaths and injuries of the most vulnerable users of its road system
Advocate Resigns from California Transportation Commission
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It looked like there might finally be a commissioner to articulate the challenges of people living in poor and underserved communities
Wiener Reintroduces Housing-Transit Bill; Some Advocates Shout Him Down
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Senator Scott Wiener reintroduced his ambitious bill to increase housing near transit
Legislators Announce a California Green New Deal
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The authors called it a "new California compact for a better, greener life for all."
DMV to Allow Testing of Autonomous “Light-Duty” Trucks on CA Roads
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By their reckoning, "light-duty" means anything up to 10,000 pounds. Five tons. No one behind the wheel. Delivering pizza.
Air Quality Board Member Rides a Bike to Meeting. Why Is this Newsworthy?
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Or, put another way: why don't more public agency directors and staff, especially those working on climate and air quality issues, use - or encourage - active transportation?
City of Sacramento Adopts a Complete Streets Policy
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Sacramento's Complete Streets policy aims to be a model for other California cities to emulate - especially since Caltrans keeps opposing one for itself.
Berkeley and Transit-Housing Law
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Step one: creating a Memorandum of Understanding between BART and Berkeley so they can work together. The MOU will guide Berkeley's accelerated rezoning of these two parcels.
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
CalBike Celebrates 25 Years of Bike Accomplishments
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Celebrating achievements and outlining what's ahead for 2020
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
Transfers Magazine: Research on Equity in Ride-hail, Parking, Transit
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The new issue of Transfers Magazine contains research on ride-hail, carless households, transit, and parking.