Tuesday’s Headlines

SF to begin enforcing intersection daylighting rules; CARB approves new clean fuels standards; Marin Co Supes want to remove bridge bike lane; More

By Melanie Curry

8:36 AM PST on November 12, 2024

Richmond San Rafael Bridge. Photo by Warren Wells

San Francisco to begin enforcing intersection daylighting rules. Oh, sorry: "loses thousands of parking spots" (KRON4, SF Standard, NBC)
CARB approves new clean fuels standards (Next-Generation Transportation, Gov Tech, Politico)
- Media again focus on impact on gas prices, missing the point (Governing)
Trump's election could hamper recent public transportation wins (Marin Independent Journal)
CalSTA commits to long-term study of LOSSAN rail corridor (Progressive Railroading)
Self-driving cars will ruin cities and wreak havoc on urban transit (Jalopnik, Cities of the Future)
Marin County supervisors are all in for removing RSR bridge bike lane (Mercury News)
Marin-Sonoma finally gets bike-share (Mass Transit)
Night biking is so fun that 100K Chinese students join in, and authorities are very annoyed (The Guardian, CNN)

Find more California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF

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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