Thursday’s Headlines
Grand jury: San Mateo is not doing enough on bike safety; SF asks state to slow expansion of driverless vehicles; Major fire at hydrogen bus fueling station in Kern County; More
8:43 AM PDT on July 20, 2023
- Grand Jury finds, again, that San Mateo cities are not doing even the bare minimum to increase bike safety (San Mateo Daily Journal)
- Weighing the tradeoffs between reliability and clean energy. Is it a false dilemma? (LA Times)
- CA road use charge pilot on schedule (Planetizen)
- Are cities really more appealing if you can drive through them easily? (Planetizen)
- Explosions, fire at Kern County hydrogen station destroy a bus, damage station (Mass Transit)
- San Francisco asks state to slow expansion of driverless vehicles (SF Standard)
- In response, CPUC will question Cruise and Waymo about what’s gone wrong (Forbes)
- Santa Monica could be the next city to offer e-bike incentives (Santa Monica Next)
- What will replace the last Northern California horse race track? (Berkeleyside)
- Spain’s conservative government wants to tear out bike infrastructure; but heat wave makes them urge people to drive less (Reuters)
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