Today’s Headlines

8:41 AM PST on March 10, 2017

A newbie attends the bike summit, advocates for better biking in California (Bike Portland)
BART incentives for off-peak travel deemed a success, but Google ends its participation (SF Examiner)
Oakland is figuring out how to incorporate equity into its infrastructure investments (Transport Oakland)
Is the defeat of L.A.'s Measure S about density, or transportation? (Curbed)
Truck “platooning”--driverless operations--being tested on L.A. freeways (Daily News)
State transportation funding bill clears another hurdle (Temecula Patch) (KRCR News)
Electric vehicle fees: Where's the controversy? (Planetizen)
CA is not the only state considering raising gas taxes: a short primer (Bloomberg)
CA grapples with the question: Who should be liable when driverless cars crash? (Capital Public Radio)
Infrastructure needs to work for people, not bankers (NRDC)
- And it should focus on creating walkable communities (Washington Monthly)
Video for your inner nerd: Caltrans describes different paving materials (Caltrans News Flash)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF

Streetsblog California editor Melanie Curry has been thinking about transportation, and how to improve conditions for bicyclists, ever since commuting to school by bike long before bike lanes were a thing. She was Managing Editor at the East Bay Express, editor of Access Magazine for the University of California Transportation Center, and earned her Masters in City Planning from UC Berkeley.

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