Today’s Headlines

8:29 AM PDT on April 25, 2018

Ford GoBike launches electric bike service (SF Examiner)
Taxing Uber and Lyft to fund transit isn't fair to transit (CityLab)
Republican say they have enough signatures for gas tax repeal to go on ballot (LA Times)
Stockton sounds nice, but that commute is a killer (Mercury News)
Lyft is claiming its rides are carbon-neutral (Curbed)
CA lawmakers want $2 billion for housing the homeless (LA Times)
Electric buses are …. hurting the oil industry? (Bloomberg)
Study from an unexpected source says gas tax isn't enough, a mileage fee is needed (The Hill)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF

Streetsblog California editor Melanie Curry has been thinking about transportation, and how to improve conditions for bicyclists, ever since commuting to school by bike long before bike lanes were a thing. She was Managing Editor at the East Bay Express, editor of Access Magazine for the University of California Transportation Center, and earned her Masters in City Planning from UC Berkeley.

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