Today’s Headlines

• The winners and the loser in the California legislative session (Mercury News)
• Forbes ponders whether California could succeed in banning gas vehicles
• LAPD “takes on” texting drivers—by reminding them not to do it (Patch)
• Self-driving cars are on a collision course with our crappy cities (The Verge)
• Driverless shuttles await permission to test on public roads in California (ITS International)
• How BART is working to make its trains quieter (BART)
• Van Ness BRT faces construction delays (SF Examiner)
• Ferry ridership between Berkeley and San Francisco is growing (East Bay Times)
• It’s hard out there for a carless person who wants to date (LA Times)
• California fires leave many homeless where housing was already scarce (NY Times)
• Mexico City has a “bicycle mayor” (Voice of America)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF