Today’s Headlines

8:24 AM PDT on March 20, 2018

Self-driving car kills pedestrian. How long until the pedestrian is blamed? (NY Times)
- Answer: about a half hour—she was “outside the crosswalk” (Bloomberg)
- “No fault by Uber,” she “abruptly” walked into street (SF Chronicle)
- She was walking her bike across the street (Bicycling)
NACTO: We cannot afford to let market competition trump safety (NACTO)
Coalition presses for stricter federal oversight of autonomous vehicles (The Hill)
No one is trying to force anyone out of cars (Vox)
Pedestrian bridges may be “safer” but they don't work (San Diego Reader)
Governor Brown's long history with California politics and laws (New Yorker)
Lyft tests monthly subscription idea—all the trips you want, one price (SF Chronicle)
CPUC considers regulating Uber, Lyft like limousines and tour buses (US News)
Traffic study will ask drivers to slow down to avoid bottlenecks (San Diego Union Tribune)
San Francisco Supervisors oppose housing bill SB 827 (Curbed)
Group opposes proposed housing development because parking (Curbed)
Homeless advocate charges San Diego with enforcing encroachment rules against people but not bikes (Voice of San Diego)
Long Beach bike-share celebrates two years (The Grunion)

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, 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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