Today’s Headlines

• CalBike‘s legislative wrap-up
• Pop-up bike lanes boost bike ridership and improve air quality (Phys.org)
• What if Apple made an e-bike? (Bloomberg)
• AC Transit working on using e-buses as power generators (NGT News)
• OCTA workers vote to strike (Mass Transit)
• Monterey-Salinas transit piloting app for easy access to contactless transit discounts (GovTech)
• Placer County looking for input on transit needs (Roseville)
• Can Los Angeles get people out of their cars? (City Monitor)
• Biden proposes gig worker protections that sounds familiar to Californians (NY Times)
• In Bloomington, a scooter rider is killed by a (drunk, speeding) driver, so the city limits… scooters (WRTV)
• More on drivers relying too heavily on driver assist technology (Jalopnik)
• Thought experiment: Should the state pay people to drive EVs? (Energy Institute at Haas)
• More states ponder mileage taxes as gas tax revenue shrinks (Pew Trusts)
• London improved its air quality by charging polluting drivers – and adding a lot of EV chargers (Bloomberg)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF