Today’s Headlines

8:07 AM PDT on May 20, 2019

CA legislature is being played by scooter companies (CityLab)
Uber and Lyft should just share the damn data already (TransitCenter)
May is Bike Month, er, Bike Safety Month, so heads up! Police departments all over the state are writing tickets this week (TPGonline)
New pedestrian bridge over Highway 101 opens in East Palo Alto (CBS)
California to probe reasons behind gas price spike (LA Times)
Sacramento approves California Mobility Center to build electric, autonomous vehicle infrastructure (Green Car Congress)
Self-driving cars need to be safer than human drivers--but by how much? (Vox)
In a bike-friendly city in Iran, women are not allowed to bicycle (Radio Free Europe)
Seven principles for solving the housing crisis (Vox)
The suburbs are coming to a city near you (New York Times)
Building a bus map where there are neither schedules or stops (Wired)

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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