Today’s Headlines

8:18 AM PDT on October 28, 2022

The surprising history and deadly consequences of right-turn-on-red (Slate)
Tesla faces criminal probe on self-driving claims (LA Times)
Many urban seniors rely on "broken" transit to get to medical appointments, errands (US News)
Metrolink marks 30th anniversary (Mass Transit)
When a highway washes away, Caltrans races to "restore traffic" (Engineering News Record)
Sacramento's Measure A transportation tax has some serious legal liabilities (Capital Public Radio)
CARB held a hearing on proposed clean truck rules:
- Truckers say they go too far, too fast (Patch)
- Residents plead for stricter rules (Spectrum)
Oil companies are selling off CA oil wells (LA Times)
Infrastructure czar Anthony Villaraigosa visits Kern County (Yahoo!)
Sebastopol bans RVs that people live in (SF Chronicle)
CA legislators who are renters form a renters caucus (ABC 10)
Musk moves in on Twitter (AP)

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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