Today’s Headlines

8:14 AM PDT on May 24, 2018

L.A. debates rules for electric scooters and bike-share (LA Times)
MTC approves pilot to test “means-based” fares across transit agencies (Green Caltrain)
Uber ends self-driving car tests, eliminating 300 jobs—but only in Arizona (US News)
SF asks CPUC to require driverless cars to release data; developers push back (SF Examiner)
Feds, CARB meet over fuel economy rules; Feds call meeting “productive” but CA doesn't (Washington Examiner)
CARB considering Innovative Clean Transit measure to require 100% zero-emission buses (Green Car Congress)
When California shuts down coal and oil plants, nearby premature birth rates fall, fast (Inside Climate News)

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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