Today’s Headlines

8:53 AM PDT on March 29, 2018

Santa Monica Blvd, much improved after being wrested from Caltrans (WEHOville)
Transportation planning should focus on people first, not cars (Capitol Weekly)
Desert Hot Springs plans pedestrian safety improvements (KESQ)
Are San Leandro cops harassing kids and taking their bikes away? (East Bay Express)
More California Transportation Commission allocations:
- Bakersfield gets $94 million for highway (Bakersfield.com)
- LA gets money for transit in San Fernando Valley, highway expansion in desert (Daily News)
SCAQMD will subsidize natural gas engines in trucks instead of electric (NGTNews)
Self-driving car gets a ticket for driving too close to a pedestrian (CBS)
Self-driving cars won't save bicyclists (Outside Online)
Uber faces a decision (LA Times)

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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