Today’s Headlines
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8:26 AM PST on January 19, 2022
- Felony charges filed in fatal crash by Tesla under autopilot (AP)
- NTSB chief: Stop saying “94% of crashes are due to driver error” – it’s misleading, removes responsibility for improving safety (AP)
- CA to receive $850 million for bridge repair under federal infrastructure law (Transportation Today)
- That is, $4.2 billion over five years (Patch)
- Pasadena finishing up public meetings on its pedestrian master plan (Pasadena Now)
- Five things planners got wrong in San Francisco (SF Chronicle)
- Not many “bicycle friendly” universities have encouragement programs; fewer still promote bike riding among underserved groups (Penn State)
- What high turnover in the public sector could mean (Route Fifty)
- Shipping, logistics companies are making a ton of money (Bloomberg)
- The people who harvest our food are bearing the brunt of California’s housing shortage (Civil Eats)
- California college students can earn cash for public service (AP)
- Covid is devastating schools in California (CalMatters)
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