Today’s Headlines

8:24 AM PDT on October 13, 2017

Will automation take away truck driver jobs? (Guardian)
Some Republicans hope to start a tax revolt with S.B. 1 repeal; others say hold on there (Cal Matters)
Can California provide enough charging stations for the electric cars it wants? (FutureStructure)
More on SANDAG reform bill just signed into law (Patch)
Proposed Bay Area bridge toll increase seen as a solution for regional transportation problems (SF Gate)
Ban on sidewalk delivery robots moves forward (SF Examiner)
Amid the devastation, the smoke from still-growing Northern California fires is also no joke (Marin Independent Journal)
Affordable housing development breaks ground in Emeryville (East Bay Times)
Housing subsidies help people who already have money (Apartment List)
Block that metaphor! There's nothing natural about “naturally affordable housing” (City Observatory)
What a Nobel economist can teach us about congestion pricing (Ethan Elkind)

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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