Today’s Headlines

8:55 AM PDT on June 14, 2018

Cities, scooters, and the value of the curb (Curbed)
New group will study interactions among different transportation modes (StateScoop)
Regulatory reset needed for ride-hail, self-driving cars (Commonwealth)
Santa Monica to scooter companies: Stay, but follow the rules (LA Times)
Scooters are working where Segway didn't (Bloomberg)
CPUC approves utilities' plan to build electric vehicle charging stations (Treehugger)
- Over 2,000 EV charging stations coming to Bay Area (Patch)
- Electrify America to spend $44 million on EVs in Sacramento area (Sacramento Bee)
CARB releases proposal for Innovative Clean Transit program; seeks comments (Green Car Congress)
Using the Happiness Index to plan cities (Governing)

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