Today’s Headlines

9:03 AM PDT on March 23, 2018

Sure, climate change is real, says Chevron, but it's your fault, not ours (The Verge)
Driverless cars are not safe (LA Times)
It looks like Uber's technology failed (LA Times), but pedestrian blaming begins in earnest:
- Pedestrians are a “growing safety concern” (Wall Street Journal)
- It's “uncomfortable” to be an unwitting participant in self-driving car experimentation (Wired)
- A collective shrug (Jalopnik)
- Walk defensively (Car2)
Rail “buffs” fight removal of unused train tracks for a bike trail (Sacramento Bee)
That huge mass of garbage floating in the ocean is now four times the size of California (San Francisco Chronicle, LA Times)
CTC adopts “transportation improvement” plan (Transport Topics)
San Luis Obispo awarded state gas tax money for highway improvements, “congestion relief” (San Luis Obispo)

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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