Today’s Headlines

8:58 AM PST on December 13, 2018

State bill pledges shelter for everyone in California (Curbed)
Senate Democrats fight federal autonomous vehicle bill (LA Times)
Mill Valley gets “bike-friendly community” designation (Marin Independent Journal)
Sacramento passes a TOD ordinance, removing minimum parking requirements (EngageSac)
Sebastopol's new electric, fare-free downtown shuttle (Sonoma West)
Federal grants for CA projects to to highways and S.F.'s Better Market Street project (ABC Bakersfield)
Palm Springs argues about scooters (Desert Sun)
Scooter companies vs. the regulators (Slate)
Urban planners: Ignore New York and Israel when it comes to e-bikes (Clean Technica)
Time Magazine's Person of the Year: The Guardians, aka journalists (Time)
Women bike riders in Syria are heroes (Reuters)

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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