Thursday’s Headlines

Preventing e-bike battery fires; Cruising robotaxis are keeping people awake and CPUC's meeting to consider allowing them is today; More

By Melanie Curry

8:43 AM PDT on July 13, 2023

Mike Kuba/The Standard

Preventing e-bike battery fires (TechCrunch)
Cruising robotaxis are keeping people awake (CPUC vote on allowing them to operate 24/7 is today) (SF Standard)
Bill would require ride-share drivers who provide school transportation to meet safety rules (Ed Source)
Four lessons from Santa Rosa's waste-to-energy electric bus program (League of California Cities)
Santa Monica still has a way to go to meet its Vision Zero commitment (Santa Monica Daily Press)
A California dam is being removed (SF Chronicle)

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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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