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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Streetsblog California |AARP

AARP Keeps Quietly Giving Out Grants for Small but Powerful Ideas to Increase Livability

A total of 184 "quick-action" projects win 2020 Community Challenge Grants; Six in California

Melanie Curry

September 2, 2020

Streetsblog California |GJEL3

Actions to Take Today Help Transit Survive the Pandemic

Call or email your Congressional representative; add your organization to a letter asking for help; sign a petition to keep transit operators safe

Melanie Curry

August 7, 2020

Streetsblog California |Bicycling

Reducing the Role of Police in Traffic Enforcement Could Increase Safety for Everyone

What the "Defund the Police" movement means for bicycling

Melanie Curry

August 6, 2020

Streetsblog California |GJEL2

What Benefits Telecommuting May Bring Are Still Very Much Unknown

Guesswork drives most of the speculation about what it might mean if more people work from home

Melanie Curry

August 4, 2020

Streetsblog California |GJEL1

New Rule on Environmental Impacts of Driving, Long Awaited, Goes Into Effect on Wednesday

And Caltrans will host a webinar tomorrow, open to all, to discuss "Rethinking How We Build So Californians Can Drive Less."

Melanie Curry

June 30, 2020

Streetsblog California |Homelessness

What Will Happen When Evictions Start Again?

New UCLA Luskin Center report warns of a dire future in L.A., if big changes aren't made now - but the lesson is relevant statewide. Nationwide.

Melanie Curry

June 5, 2020

Streetsblog California |GJEL3

This Year’s Ride of Silence Will Be DIY

Every third Wednesday of May, in communities all over the globe, people come together to ride in silence to honor and commemorate cyclists who have been killed on the road. The rides are solemn, sedate, and moving, and this year they will not be done in big groups.

Melanie Curry

May 19, 2020

Streetsblog California |Coronavirus

How to Bring Hand-Washing Stations to the Unhoused

LavaMaeX's Hand Washing For All campaign aims to teach people how to make, maintain hand-washing stations to help stop spread of coronavirus

Melanie Curry

May 15, 2020

Streetsblog California |Promoted

This Is What a Sustainable Transportation User Looks Like

Move Free SD is out to encourage San Diego residents to use sustainable transportation when they get around. Plenty of them, featured in this photo series, already do.

Melanie Curry

May 12, 2020

Streetsblog California |Coronavirus

Bike Businesses Serve Communities During COVID

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.

Melanie Curry

May 1, 2020

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