Today’s Headlines
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
8:39 AM PDT on August 9, 2018
- Study: Self-driving cars fail to stop in emergencies (The Hill)
- How to prevent deadly car-bike crashes (Route Fifty)
- California insists on keeping vehicle efficiency standards (Governing)
- Automakers are not prepared to sell electric cars. Plus, they resist doing it (Medium)
- Montebello considers bus fare increase (Whittier Daily News)
- Fed’s retaliatory tariffs against China to include 25% tariff on e-bikes (Bicycle Retailer)
- Berkeley backs off plan to remove all trees planted in its traffic circles (Berkeleyside)
- Cap-and-trade grants awarded for fire prevention (Courthouse News)
- Large settlement in Aliso Canyon leak will go to methane-reducing projects elsewhere in state (LA Times)
- Local residents don’t want a heavily used path repaired. No, wait, they do. No, wait (Berkeleyside)
- It’s not an Uber cap, it’s a course correction (Streetsblog New York)
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
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