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Today’s Headlines

8:03 AM PDT on March 12, 2018

    • 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

Melanie Curry

Streetsblog California editor Melanie Curry has been thinking about transportation, and how to improve conditions for bicyclists, since her early days commuting by bike to UCLA long ago. She was Managing Editor at the East Bay Express, and edited Access Magazine for the University of California Transportation Center. She also earned her Masters in City Planning from UC Berkeley.

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