Today’s Headlines

8:27 AM PDT on September 3, 2019

CALmatters explains California's fight over tailpipe emissions
Slowing left turns, restricting right turns on red: SF considers deeper traffic calming (Curbed)
Persistent myths about pedestrian crashes make safety harder to achieve (The Star)
- ...and pedestrians on cell phones are not a huge problem (NY Daily News)
OCTA student bus pass program expands to two more colleges (OC Breeze)
E-bikes are allowed in national parks (Electrek)
- but not on every trail (SF Chronicle)
CA High Speed Rail Authority celebrates milestone: 3,000 construction jobs (Sierra Sun Times)
Uber and Lyft want their drivers to absorb company costs (Jalopnik)
- Uber defends itself (Medium)
Waymo pushes for removal of regulatory barriers to its self-driving technology (Reuters)
Teslas--and electric cars--won't save the world (The Week)
European automakers try to clean up their supply chain (Automotive News Europe)

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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