Today’s Headlines

• Health benefits of cycling could save everybody money--not just cyclists (The Georgia Straight)
• Economic benefits from the gas tax may be real, but let's not overstate them (CalMatters)
• The unhelpful ways cities talk about bike helmets (CityLab)
• Bakersfield to step up “pedestrian safety patrols” this weekend (Kern Golden Empire)
• That's how to do it: Paris offers financial incentives for ditching your car (Bicycling)
• Denied access to Uber, Lyft data, cities have to get creative (Wired)
• Lyft to test self-driving cars in California (Future Structure)
• New analysis says greenhouse gas emissions from cities is much higher than previously thought (National Geographic)
• States must act on climate change (Bloomberg)
• CA Assemblymember Mayes sues over wording of climate change ballot measure which would, yes, limit legislature's ability to fund climate change programs (Desert Sun)
• Bay Area shorelines sinking, at risk of flooding (Mercury News)
• Vacaville to hold a summit on transportation for seniors, disabled people (Daily Republic)
• Lillias Campbell Davidson, founder of the first women's cycling organization, among women who finally get an obit in the NY Times
• Crowded cities search for nature-based health solutions (Christian Science Monitor)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF