Wednesday’s Headlines

Record global heat stumps science; SF-to-LA night train becoming reality? The Year of the Bus; Tesla pushes customers to test "full self-drive" beta; More

By Melanie Curry

8:28 AM PDT on March 27, 2024

Photo by Joe Linton/Streetsblog

Record global heat stumps scientists (LA Times)
SFPUC has rebates for residents who want to buy e-bikes (CBS)
SF-to-LA "night train" moves closer to reality (SF Gate)
LA Metro celebrates bus-only lanes on Sepulveda (Patch)
This is the year of the bus (ITDP)
Group objects to Olive Avenue redesign through Burbank (KTLA)
North County Transit District hires lobbying firm to help obtain federal grants (Del Mar Times)
How is this legal? Tesla pushes US customers to try its "full self-drive" beta software (Tech Crunch)
Testing how not to get hit by a self-driving car in a museum (SF Gate)
PG&E may not fully repay state loan for nuclear facility at Diablo Canyon (Sacramento Bee)

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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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