Today’s Headlines

• BART touts its coming technological improvements
• City of Irvine gets a Pedestrian Hybrid Beacon (UC Irvine)
• Housing/transit bill SB 50 routed past committee that blocked it (SF Chronicle)
• Optional surcharge for healthy soils and climate to be added to schmancy meals (Mother Jones)
• Are Teslas suddenly accelerating on their own? (ABC13)
• Driverless delivery vehicles are coming to California (Marketplace)
• High-speed rail through the Sepulveda Pass? (Sportsfinding)
• Santa Ana wants to expand its streetcar (Voice of OC)
• Driver jumps the curb, kills pedestrian on sidewalk, flees (Berkeleyside)
• Questions arise about how, why CPUC allows Uber, Lyft to hide crash data (San Francisco Public Press)
• $25,000 to ride Amtrak if you and your friends have one too many wheelchairs? (NPR)
• Fresno’s motels, used as housing for homeless, to be inspected (CalMatters)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF