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.

Untrashing the Planet, One Corner at a Time

By Melanie Curry | Jan 5, 2021 | No Comments

Cleaning up means working together, but also just getting out there with gloves and bags and picking up the trash.

We Need Climate Leaders Who Understand Equity

By Melanie Curry | Dec 2, 2020 | No Comments

California needs bold leadership at every level and in every agency to ensure the Governor's visionary Executive Orders become reality.

California Connections in the Biden Clean Energy Plan

By Melanie Curry | Nov 12, 2020 | No Comments

Policy recommendations advise replicating some of California's best programs, but time is precious.

What Does it Take to Meet State Climate and Equity Goals?

By Melanie Curry | Nov 6, 2020 | No Comments

California agencies - CARB, CTC, and HCD - come together to find a path towards meeting all kinds of state goals on climate change, environment, justice and equity, and sustainability

Walking is the Best Cure for Election Blues

By Melanie Curry | Nov 3, 2020 | No Comments

While the best time to start a walking meditation practice may have been in 2016, the second-best time is today.

Calif. Agencies Grapple With Equity and the Environment

By Melanie Curry | Oct 29, 2020 | No Comments

California Air Resources Board hosts heated exchange over perceived lack of transparency on racial justice statement; other state agencies moving towards learning about dismantling their racist structures

CA Governor Signs Housing, Sustainable Transportation Bills

By Melanie Curry | Sep 29, 2020 | No Comments

But he vetoes a bill declaring housing as a human right, inconsistent with his willingness to set aspirational goals in other areas (such as electric vehicle mandates)

Cali 2035 Gas Car Ban Barely Mentions Non-Drivers

By Melanie Curry | Sep 24, 2020 | No Comments

Governor Newsom's executive order calling for cleaner transportation only hints at the most important way to reduce transportation emissions and make life in California better: by encouraging and supporting walking, biking, and transit.

CA To End Sales of Gas-Powered Cars by 2035

By Melanie Curry | Sep 23, 2020 | No Comments

As part of Climate Week 2020, California Governor Newsom today issued an executive order declaring the goal of eliminating fossil fuels from transportation, a sector that produces half of California’s toxic and greenhouse gas emissions. The order calls for ending all sales of new fossil-fuel-powered vehicles in the next fifteen years, and calls on various […]