Today’s Headlines
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
8:35 AM PDT on June 1, 2017
- Tesla’s autopilot is a danger to bicyclists (Treehugger)
- The OC Register says Orange County is the “Mecca” of electric bikes
- Women and bikes (Bike Citizens)
- LED bike lights are fashion-forward safety devices (NY Times)
- Republicans target freshman state Senator for voting to raise money to fix the roads they’ve been complaining need fixing (LA Times)
- Governor Brown takes on international climate change diplomacy in face of Trump withdrawal from Paris accord (Sacramento Bee)
- Time to forget cap-and-trade and just require pollution reduction (San Francisco Chronicle)
- Why CA should extend cap-and-trade (Environmental Defense Fund)
- Governor “moving heaven and earth” to extend cap-and-trade (Capital Public Radio)
- Uber subsidized riders to a crazy extent (BuzzFeed)
- Forget Vehicle Miles Traveled; it’s time to start planning for “zero-occupant miles” (Mobility Lab)
- CA moves toward more renewable energy use (KQED)
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
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