Today’s Headlines

• Five ways California can improve infrastructure to "unleash the power" of electric cars (USPIRG)
• It's Distracted Driving Awareness Month
  • which means crackdowns (The Signal)
  • and a call for California to ban all phone use while driving from the National Transportation Safety Board (Modesto Bee)
• UPS says trucks, bikes, and pedestrians need to coexist peacefully
• Muni drivers, faced with long commutes, need a better place to sleep than their cars (SF Examiner)
• Oakland paving plan prioritizes underserved neighborhoods (CBS)
• Vox says driverless cars will be "unthinkable" in fifty years
• More on progress of housing-transit bill (Daily Democrat)
• Nipsey Hussle was trying to buy back his neighborhood (LA Times)
• Rich San Franciscans start a GoFundMe to fight a homeless shelter; others raise even more to support the homeless (CityLab)
• Will e-bikes kill the mechanical... er, manual... er, "acoustic" bike? Nah, it's a cockroach (Forbes)
• Climate change denial on the ground in Miami (Popula)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF