Bicycle rider, mom, beekeeper. Editor of California Streetsblog--follow SBCA @StreetsblogCal
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currymel retweeted
15 Sep 2025
It was 85° at 11am when this crew of two was hard at work in Mettler, CA. They were loading 20-25 lb boxes filled with grapes onto a truck. These boxes will be exported all around the world to places like Canada, Japan, Australia, and more. #WeFeedYou #Calor
ALT Farm workers loading a truck full of harvested grapes
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currymel retweeted
2 Nov 2024
It was a huge mistake to delay the re-launch of e-bikes in the East Bay for 6 years, and it remains a huge mistake that the service area still hasn’t been expanded to include East Oakland.
2 Nov 2024
New stations and more ebikes are helping Bay Wheels gain new ridership. mtc.one/3YyL670
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currymel retweeted
26 Oct 2024
If 45,000 people died per year in the US in airplane crashes, an average of 25 commercial flights per month @ 150 passengers per flight, would you still fly?
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currymel retweeted
26 Oct 2024
WATCH: Seriously, if you’re following ANY bike-lane debate, you HAVE TO WATCH this news story. Politician claims without evidence that bike-lanes are bad for small business, and THE ACTUAL BUSINESS ASSOCIATION obliterates him with data. Great, @citynewsTO.
toronto.citynews.ca/video/20…
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currymel retweeted
21 Oct 2024
Watch this cyclist illegally blow right through the pedestrian crossover as I wait to cross with my wife and toddler! They should be licensed just like drivers, then this wouldn't happen!
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currymel retweeted
22 Oct 2024
Metro staff report says Culver City has to return $435K for removing Metro-funded Move Culver City bike lanes (looks like ped and transit grant components remain intact)
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currymel retweeted
16 Oct 2024
65th St in Emeryville. New speed limits just dropped.
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currymel retweeted
27 Sep 2024
Governor Newsom Signs Complete Streets Bill, finally! State law will require Caltrans to plan and build a transportation system for everyone who uses California roads. cal.streetsblog.org/2024/09/…
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currymel retweeted
28 Sep 2024
The Governor vetoed our bill requiring new cars to alert drivers when they’re >10 MPH over speed limit.
4K people a year die on CA roads & speed is a big factor.
This technology gets people to slow down & saves lives.
This veto is disappointing but I’m committed to this work.
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currymel retweeted
19 Sep 2024
Metro posted new weekday daily ridership figures - and it's yet more month of year-over-year ridership growth - looks July and August 2024 were 21st & 22nd straight y-o-y growth:
Aug 2024: 963K (2023 was 889K)
July 2024: 903K (2023 was 847K)
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currymel retweeted
20 Sep 2024
It’s short but sweet! Sometimes riders need tiny bits of infrastructure to connect heavily used bike routes. The brand new block-long Michigan Ave connector is just that, linking a dead end on Michigan Ave and the Expo path.Thanks for the head’s up @StreetsblogLA
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currymel retweeted
21 Sep 2024
Why am I teary over a train?? My 7yo asked what’s going to happen to the diesel @Caltrain now and I told him they were going to take the diesel trains to live on a farm where they could spend the rest of their days frolicking and driving kids around. 🥺
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currymel retweeted
19 Sep 2024
READ THIS: "The car wastes more time than it saves & creates more distance than it overcomes." We’ve known this for a long time. Share this remarkable, completely relevant 1973 essay on car-dependancy by André Gorz, thankfully shared by @UnevenEarth.
unevenearth.org/2018/08/the-…
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currymel retweeted
20 Sep 2024
Bike lanes make the street safer for ALL road users, not just for people on bikes.
20 Sep 2024
Kinduva big deal.
"...high-bicycling-mode-share cities are not only safer for bicyclists but for all road users."
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currymel retweeted
16 Sep 2024
Looks like Arvilla was about 30 feet wide - now it's about 80 feet wide. Because when LA City builds a walk/bike path, they have to make the intersections more dangerous for walk/bike folks getting across.
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currymel retweeted
16 Sep 2024
A couple of officials at today's bike path ribbon cutting mentioned "reconfiguring" the Arvilla Avenue railroad crossing. Turns out that's a euphemism for widening Arvilla (a 3-block long street) from 2 lanes to 4 lanes. Below are Google images of Arvilla in 2015, 2023 & 2024
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currymel retweeted
13 Sep 2024
Someone else was honored for being a superstar!
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currymel retweeted
13 Sep 2024
Award for @JohnBauters whose first bike advocacy was getting a bike rack in elementary school
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