Today’s Headlines

8:32 AM PDT on July 15, 2020

Fight over Caltrain control and funding includes shutdown threat (SF Chronicle)
BART, Caltrain are both on the brink (SF Chronicle)
Fresno considers protected bike lanes from downtown to River Parkway (CV Wire)
Fifteen states agree to work together on making all heavy trucks electric (Smart Cities Dive, Transport Topics)
Electric bikes are enjoying a surge (Smart Cities World)
The 85th percentile rule is under increasing scrutiny (SSTI)
Biden's "climate plan" assumes dependency on cars (Forbes)
- Which is no climate plan: cars are a mess (Wired)
German court says Tesla must stop making false claims about its "autonomous driving" capabilities (Reuters)
Another environmental protection under attack from Trump administration (Washington Post)

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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