Thursday’s Headlines

How e-bikes are shifting the transportation landscape; Driverless cars are honking, waking people; The gas tax is going to have be replaced; More

By Melanie Curry

8:51 AM PDT on August 15, 2024

Fremont made me a suburbanite (kind of) (Darrell Owens)
Lowering speeds, improving crosswalks: Santa Rosa looks to improve street safety (The Press Democrat)
Study: How e-bikes are shifting the transportation landscape (Momentum Mag)
LA Metro wants riders on its public safety committee (KTLA)
Fresno's city college offers a shuttle to rural area (ABC30)
More on plan for a car-free Olympics with potentially lasting effects (SmartCitiesDive, LA Times)
States are going to need to replace the gas tax (Politico)
When will new toll lanes open in San Bernardino County? (Daily Bulletin)
Now they're HONKING: Driverless cars keep waking people up (East Bay Times)
People think it's annoying to refuel hydrogen cars; wait till they hear about that leakage problem (LA Times)
CA seeks federal permission to start banning new diesel trucks (CalMatters)
Are outgoing legislators voting on bills that affect their new employers? (CalMatters)
Bay Area housing bond removed from ballot (CalMatters, SF Chronicle)
San Diego might expand its "safe sleeping" sites for unhoused people (San Diego Union Tribune)
- While LA looks to ban RV parking (LA Times)

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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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