Wednesday’s Headlines

LA working to improve bus shelters; US bike policy wins; Yup, there are definitely more driverless Waymos in SF; More

8:28 AM PDT on July 31, 2024

LA is working to improve its bus shelters (KQED)
Bike policy wins across the US in 2024 (People for Bikes)
How a $100 bike changed someone's life (Bike Portland)
Using AI to map bike infrastructure and create a wayfinding system (Independent)
Two neighborhoods in San Diego aim to develop more like downtown (San Diego Union Tribune)
Sausalito looks to overhaul its ferry landing (Mass Transit)
Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority awarded "Outstanding Public Transit System" (San Jose Inside)
Tax on Uber, Waymo to fund SF Muni heading to ballot (SF Examiner)
It's not your imagination: there are more driverless Waymos in SF (SF Chronicle)
Amid uncertainty about future amendments to cap-and-trade, latest auction prices dip (Energy Information Administration)
Undocumented immigrants in California pay billions in taxes (Sacramento Bee)

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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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