Thursday’s Headlines

New bill would limit car speeds; San Diego floods; Regional transportation tax measure in Bay Area? More

8:01 AM PST on January 25, 2024

Senator Wiener introduces bill to require cars to limit speeds (SF Standard, SF Chronicle, KTLA, Senator Wiener)
- And another Complete Streets bill (CalBike)
Another landslide stalls train service through San Clemente (KTLA)
Examining the fallout from San Diego flooding, including transit impacts (Axios, LA Times)
Bay Area officials want a regional tax measure for road repair; advocates say: Sure, but not for freeway expansion (Mercury News)
A first look at designs for CA High-Speed Rail cars (SF Chronicle)
Half of new cars in Europe are to wide for street parking (Intelligent Transport)

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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