Today’s Headlines

• 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