Today’s Headlines

8:35 AM PST on March 6, 2018

New southernmost BART stations may not open until 2019 (Mercury News)
How bike-share could reduce traffic on Highway 50 near Sacramento (Sacramento Bee)
Santa Monica wants to limit scooters (Santa Monica Daily Press)
Electric buses coming to Sacramento, Davis (The Aggie)
SF Muni may cut some fares (SF Chronicle)
After years of delay, Fruitvale Transit Village will finally get more affordable housing (SF Chronicle)
Momentum builds in California for radical action on housing (CityLab)
Despite urging from public interest groups to go slowly on autonomous vehicle regulation.... (Auto News)
- ...Federal government shows little resistance to autonomous vehicles (The Verge)
- But individuals' responses are not always so passive (LA Times)
No, no, no! They're still just single occupant cars, but some want to set aside freeway lanes for autonomous vehicles (Mercury News)

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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