Today’s Headlines

• 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