Today’s Headlines

• Alameda County to vote today on whether to grab transit money for a road: Actions (Green Caltrain)
• La Verne making moves to become more bicycle friendly (Daily Bulletin)
• Stanislaus County to get millions of federal dollars for roads (Modesto Bee)
• First driverless bus deploys in CA (State Scoop)
• If we don’t plan for them, autonomous vehicles will make our car-dominated transit system even worse (LA Times)
• Caltrans, flush with money, needs to hire a lot of people (Sacramento Bee)
• CA high-speed rail business plan: costs will rise (Business Journal)
• State bill would allow SF to implement congestion pricing (SF Examiner)
• Prop 70, a product of cap-and-trade extension deal, has little support (LA Times)
• Developer adds affordable units, invokes state law to get around NIMBYs in Berkeley (Berkeleyside)
• Dublin City Council rejects 220-unit housing project near BART station: “too massive” and “wrong colors” (Systemic Failure)
• Study: Climate change will wreak havoc on California agriculture (LA Times)
• Solutions to congestion start with CEOs (Quartz)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF