Today’s Headlines

• A newbie attends the bike summit, advocates for better biking in California (Bike Portland)
• BART incentives for off-peak travel deemed a success, but Google ends its participation (SF Examiner)
• Oakland is figuring out how to incorporate equity into its infrastructure investments (Transport Oakland)
• Is the defeat of L.A.'s Measure S about density, or transportation? (Curbed)
• Truck “platooning”--driverless operations--being tested on L.A. freeways (Daily News)
• State transportation funding bill clears another hurdle (Temecula Patch) (KRCR News)
• Electric vehicle fees: Where's the  controversy? (Planetizen)
• CA is not the only state considering raising gas taxes: a short primer (Bloomberg)
• CA grapples with the question: Who should be liable when driverless cars crash? (Capital Public Radio)
• Infrastructure needs to work for people, not bankers (NRDC)
  • And it should focus on creating walkable communities (Washington Monthly)
• Video for your inner nerd: Caltrans describes different paving materials (Caltrans News Flash)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF