Today’s Headlines

8:14 AM PDT on October 17, 2017

The winners and the loser in the California legislative session (Mercury News)
Forbes ponders whether California could succeed in banning gas vehicles
LAPD “takes on” texting drivers—by reminding them not to do it (Patch)
Self-driving cars are on a collision course with our crappy cities (The Verge)
Driverless shuttles await permission to test on public roads in California (ITS International)
How BART is working to make its trains quieter (BART)
Van Ness BRT faces construction delays (SF Examiner)
Ferry ridership between Berkeley and San Francisco is growing (East Bay Times)
It's hard out there for a carless person who wants to date (LA Times)
California fires leave many homeless where housing was already scarce (NY Times)
Mexico City has a “bicycle mayor” (Voice of America)

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.

Stay in touch

More from Streetsblog California

Ride-hail

Report: Half of Uber, Lyft Trips Replace More Sustainable Options

Researchers at UC Davis have found that more than half of ride-hail trips in California replace walking, biking, carpooling, and public transit trips, or are trips that otherwise wouldn't happen. They have ideas to make it more sustainable.

Melanie Curry

August 30, 2024

Santa Monica

In October, Santa Monica Will Lower Speed Limits on 29 Streets – and Raise it on One

Based on Council procedures, the changes require a second vote that should occur at the September 10 meeting, with changes going into effect 30 days later.