NACTO Pushes Back as Big Auto Seeks Safety Exemption for Driverless Cars
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The national association of city transportation officials cries foul as Ford and GM try an end run around the NHTSA for cars without steering wheels and brakes.
Today’s Headlines
| | No Comments- BART Ending Mask Mandate Next Month (EastBayTimes, CBS, LATimes)
- More on Service Starting on Central Subway (RailwayAge, KALW, ProgressiveRailroading)
- Plan to Interline L Taraval and K Ingleside (SFStandard)
- Federal Bill Would Fund More Ferries (DailyRepublic)
- More than 200 Cyclists Doored (MissionLocal)
- Plans for Lake Merritt to South Hayward Greenway (Oaklandside)
- Critical Mass at 30 (SFExaminer)
- Parking Reform is Essential for the Climate (Bloomberg, SFChron)
- What End of Single Family Zoning Could Mean (Berkeleyside)
- Self-Driving Car Benefits and Perils (SmartCitiesDive)
- Ask a Cable Car Gripman (SFChron)
- Letters: Induced Demand? I’ll Just Pretend that Doesn’t Exist (RichmondReview)
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SF Streets At a Crossroads: One Route Leads to Fewer Cars, Another to the Same Old Traffic
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Mayor Breed says COVID slow streets must ‘evolve.’ Next month brings a key debate on matching our roadways to climate and safety pledges.
Talking Headways Podcast: How Walkable Cities Foster Public Health
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Why having shopping destinations and an interconnected street network keep people active and alive.
Op-Ed: To Heal Historic Highway Harms, Sec. Buttigieg Needs Bold Thinking
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Entrenched state departments of transportation dedicated to highway building threaten to capture Reconnecting Communities grant funds to continue harm — not undo it.
‘We Couldn’t Take A Roundabout Out if We Wanted To’: An Interview with Jim Brainerd, Mayor of Carmel, Ind.
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The Indianapolis suburb of Carmel has become internationally famous for its commitment to a hotly-debated traffic safety intervention known as the "roundabout." It wasn't always that way, though — until Mayor Jim Brainerd came along.
Feds Finally Using Highway Money to Tear Down Highways
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“This stretch of I-375 cuts like a gash through the neighborhood, one of many examples I have seen in communities across the country where a piece of infrastructure has become a barrier,” Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said.
Today’s Headlines
| | No Comments- Are Bay Area Transit Agencies Putting Customer First? (SFChron)
- Renderings of BART Second Tube (SFChron, SFExaminer)
- More on Central Subway Opening (SFGate)
- Therese McMillan Resigning from MTC (MassTransit)
- Free Ferry Rides Oct. 5 (AlamedaPost)
- Analysis of High-Injury Network (SFStandard)
- Cruise Exec Says Cars May Never be Fully Autonomous (SlashGear)
- Antioch Child Hit by Impatient Motorist is Taken off Life Support (EastBayTimes)
- Riding Amtrak Between Oakland and L.A. (EastBayTimes)
- Who Will be Oakland’s Next Mayor? (SFChron)
- San Rafael Advances “Streetery” Regs (MarinIJ)
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Caltrans Continues Widening, This Time with South San Francisco
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Induced demand? Let's just pretend it isn't real, says Caltrans
Four Reasons Not to Celebrate NHTSA’s New Fatality Numbers
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News dropped yesterday that the number of people dying in motor vehicles across the country went down slightly during the first half of 2022 — but don't start celebrating.
Data: Uber and Lyft Drivers Involved in 1,000+ Crashes in Boston Last Year
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Uber and Lyft drivers were involved in 1,098 crashes in the city of Boston last year — roughly one-quarter of all motor vehicle collisions in the city.