Today’s Headlines

• KRON4 reports “a fatal collision between a pedestrian and a vehicle” —but the pedestrian was on the sidewalk—and was the vehicle driving itself?
• Active Transportation Program fund recommendations:
  • $7 million to Santa Barbara (Edhat)
  • The Rincon Multi-Use trail in Carpinteria would “offset some of the impacts” of widening Highway 101 (Noozhawk)
  • Millions for Chico, Oroville (Chicoer)
• Tinkering with bicycle design (Bicycling)
• Bike East Bay seeks support for a better Berkeley Bike Plan (Bike East Bay)
• Caltrain looking for volunteers for bicycle advisory committee (Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition)
• Sacramento Area Bicycle Associates support Measure B
• Public transit is a civil rights issue (ATTN)
• Wired says new BART car designs are for “anti-social commuters”
• Here are the most common excuses for high subway construction costs (Pedestrian Observation)
• New law integrates climate change into California law and planning (The Planning Report)
• Volkswagen is still cheating on emissions (Wall Street Journal)
• An atlas of gentrification (Creative Review)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF