Today’s Headlines
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7:10 AM PDT on June 12, 2018
- The racial dynamics of housing bill SB 827 (Next City)
- Traffic signals favor cars and delay pedestrians (Transportist)
- Twelve graphs that argue the case for urban cycling (Guardian)
- Electric buses pencil out (RouteFifty)
- Sacramento bus riders get “leaning benches” (Sacramento Bee)
- Caltrain’s “bikes board first” policy reduces boarding times, and will expand (San Mateo Daily Journal)
- California and car makers agree on emissions standards (Planetizen)
- Waymo is about to multiply its self-driving fleet by a hundred (The Verge)
- Tesla adds new self-driving features as crash investigations continue (Silicon Angle)
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