Today’s Headlines

• SF grants first permit for dockless e-bike-share (SF Examiner)
• Improving communities for active transportation requires change (Alta Planning and Design)
• American kids are 70 percent more likely to die before adulthood than other countries (Vox)
• CA okays money to clean up freight trucks, trains, buses (Green Car Reports)
• CA DMV unveils new federally approved ID, driver’s license (Modesto Bee)
• CA transit agencies elect board leaders (Progressive Railroading)
• When car manufacturers try to make bikes, they usually get it wrong (Bike Radar)
• Trek is working on “bicycle-to-vehicle” communication technology (so drivers don’t have to use old tech, like eyes?) (The Verge)
• CA Republicans work on reshaping their party, with assist from Schwarzenegger (Sacramento Bee)
• Senate Democrats approve new leader (Capital Public Radio)
• The French city that made transit free (CityLab)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF