Today’s Headlines

8:49 AM PST on March 1, 2016

San Francisco's steep hills are too hard for new buses to climb (SF Examiner)
Vision for LA transit: self-driving cars, hyperloop (LA Times)
Mental health suffers when we surrender to car culture (Mobility Lab)
Are cars the most socialist form of transportation? (TreeHugger)
Milan, Italy will try paying people to commute by bike (Guardian)
Google self-driving car collides with bus, learns that bigger vehicles are bullies (San Diego Union Tribune)
Benefits of removing Level of Service from California environmental law (Safe Routes to Schools)
Transit fuels transformation in struggling neighborhoods (Fast Lane)
A (long, detailed) look at Personal Rapid Transit, an idea whose time never came (Verge)

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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