Recent Streetsblog CALIFORNIA posts about Today’s Headlines

Where car-free streets boosted business (CityLab) Car supremacy and America’s traffic paradox (The Week) End red tape for red bus lanes (TransitCenter) Oklahoma signs its version of stop-as-yield law (KFOR) Waymo, Cruise want to run autonomous taxis, deliveries in SF (Reuters) Autonomous vehicles sound great, but they’re not all that (Jalopnik) Los Angeles to experiment […]

Bicycles saved my life: Rich City Rides’ Najari Smith (Christian Science Monitor) Peatónito, Mexico City’s pedestrian superhero, is about to graduate from UCLA (Curbed) Mr. Roadshow explains the proposed safety stop law (Mercury News) Marin considers putting pipeline back on bridge – but now there’s a bike lane there (Systemic Failure) Securing an equitable, clean […]

How working from home could make traffic worse (SF Chronicle) Police investigate reports of a driverless Tesla on the freeway (SF Chronicle) Elon is wrong, Tesla engineers told DMV (CNBC) Antelope Valley adds more electric buses to its fleet (Green Car Congress) A person had to die for officials to pay attention to dangerous conditions […]

California is developing a clean vehicle future (NRDC) It’s a start (Sierra Club) But those old fossil fuel vehicles aren’t going away soon (Transportist) SoCal is a hub for green transportation (MarketScale) Who is moving to California, and who is leaving (PPIC) Challenges and opportunities in urban cycling, from a long-time bike business (SmartCitiesDive) Amtrak […]

Subsidized driving and the burden of climate change (Frontier Group) Let’s throw away some of these rules of the road (Bloomberg) Proponents push to widen rural Highway 41 in Fresno county to solve bad driving (KMPH) People are walking in cities more since the pandemic (Yes!) Reining in pollution from the warehouse industry (LA Times) […]

The worst commute (Fern) Transportation for America grades Biden’s first 100 days on transportation Adding lanes doesn’t solve congestion; why do we keep doing it? (Governing) San Francisco trying to figure out how to fully electrify all buildings (SF Chronicle) Earthquake early warning system now available statewide (SF Chronicle) There’s a shortage of truck drivers […]