Friday’s Headlines

Caltrans, we need complete streets everywhere, including at freeway interchanges (or maybe especially there); Public agencies and academics join forces to develop AV standards; Republicans really want to suspend the gas tax; More

By Melanie Curry

8:45 AM PDT on September 29, 2023

Hey, Caltrans, we need complete streets everywhere, including at freeway interchanges (CalBike)
Public agencies join academics to develop national AV standards (Mass Transit)
CA Republicans try again to suspend the gas tax, calling for "consumer relief" (Sacramento Bee)
Santa Barbara's ban on Exxon oil trucks remains in place after court decision (Spectrum)
California has rival future plans for saving the threatened Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta (CalMatters)
Newsom, lawmakers ask Supreme Court to remove ballot measure that would make it extremely difficult to raise state taxes (SF Chronicle)

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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