Today’s Headlines

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

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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