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

By Melanie Curry

8:43 AM PDT on July 20, 2023

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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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Melanie Curry

@StreetsblogCal

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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