Tuesday’s Headlines

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

By Melanie Curry

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)

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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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