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Tuesday’s Headlines

BART train derails; Can't give a ticket to a driverless vehicle; Nationalize Greyhound; US preparing to expand its size; More

8:19 AM PST on January 2, 2024

Oakland’s empty Greyhound station. Photo by Amir Aziz/Oaklandside.

  • BART train derails, BART working to get line open for Tuesday commute (KQED, SF Chronicle)
  • Santa Cruz Metro rolls out extended routes, more buses (Lookout)
  • Driver arrested for assault after failed attempt to ram Rose Parade - barriers prevented disaster (Daily Bulletin)
  • Can't give a traffic ticket to a self-driving car (Mashable)
  • Was there a decline in U.S. travel, or is the data bad? (City Commentary)
  • California is killing AC Transit (SF Chronicle)
  • Nationalize Greyhound (Jacobin)
  • 2023 weather extremes, seen from space (Yale)
  • Three of California's biggest polluters are refineries in the Bay Area (SF Chronicle)
  • Musk's fake Hyperloop is dead (BBC)
  • US prepares to expand its area, into oil-rich seas (Big Country News)

Find more California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF

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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