Today’s Headlines

Today is National Bike to Work Day—have a great ride!

• High speed rail gets a four-year delay (Politico)  (LA Times)
  • …and opponents jump at the chance to raise heck (Silicon Valley Business Journal)
• Director of Caltrans leads annual bike tour to promote, discuss bicycling for transportation (Mass Transit)
• Placer County “sidewalks to nowhere” are endangering people walking (Sacramento Bee)
• No, no, no, no, and no: Google wants its self-driving cars to grab any pedestrians it hits (Mercury News)
• Never mind: San Diego’s climate change plan is legally enforceable, after all (San Diego Union-Tribune)
• Five cities that are reducing GHGs while achieving social and economic development (The City Fix)
• San Francisco landlord and Uber will pay residents $100 to be car-free (thus reducing parking requirements/expenses for landlord) (The Verge)
• New issue of Access Magazine: Energy use in electric vehicles, airport traffic congestion, cars and economic opportunity, running to work, and more (Access)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF