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
Bill to Ban New Freeways through Sensitive Communities
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The bill would prohibit Caltrans from using state resources on any project, or on permitting any project, that does not meet certain criteria measured by the California Healthy Places Index.
Ride of Silence, All Over California
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The silent group rides are both a remembrance of lost loved ones and a call to drivers and policy makers to do more to make cycling safer.
Gov’s Budget Proposal for Bikes, High-Speed Rail
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Newsom IS proposing $1 billion for the ATP, and releasing Prop 1A bonds for HSR
Progress on California’s High-Speed Rail
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Some people are beginning to notice that the project is actually happening
Bicycle Stop-as-Yield Laws: They Increase Safety
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The National Highway and Traffic Safety Administration has posted a short "safety fact sheet" summarizing the research on stop-as-yield laws. They reduce crashes.
What Should the Air Resources Board Study?
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An opportunity to help shape California Air Resources Board's research priorities - and provide ideas for future research projects
High-Speed Rail Hits Milestones
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EIR for Merced to San Jose, Central Valley Station designs, Funding for Union Station, Adoption of 2022 Business Plan
Newsom Appoints Adonia Lugo to Transportation Commission
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Lugo is a longtime transportation equity advocate, a professor at Antioch University Los Angeles - instrumental in the Untokening and CicLAvia
Bill Would Require Bicycle and Pedestrian Safety in General Plans
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Bay Area Seamless Transit bill also among bill passed by Senate Transportation Committee
Earth Day: 52 Years of Individual Environmental Action Hasn’t Fixed It
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The issues Earth Day calls us to pay attention to have not changed much since 1970. And the fight to hold polluters accountable is a long, long way from being won.
Learn About and Offer Thoughts on California Transportation Assessment
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Strategic Growth Council to host public discussion of A.B 285 report, which says California is not spending its transportation money wisely
