Today’s Headlines

8:42 AM PDT on May 21, 2019

Why bicycle riders get angry, in one short video (SF Examiner)
East Palo Alto celebrates opening of bike pedestrian overpass (Palo Alto Online)
$40 million for LA river bike path (Curbed)
Report: Make transit free to offset impacts from Uber/Lyft (SF Examiner)
Numbers: Distracted driving is killing us (Mercury News)
THAT housing bill is not quite dead (Press Democrat)
Electric cars have been around for a very long time (Interesting Engineering)
Chevron to install electric vehicle chargers at its stations (CleanTechnica)
Not everyone working on autonomous vehicles thinks like Musk (The Drive)
L.A.'s plan to fight climate change needs public support (LA Times)
California cities roll towards sustainability (NRDC)
Many question remain about gas price disparities (Business Journal)
Cautionary tale: The dangerous standoff between Uber and Buenos Aires (CityLab)

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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