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Today’s Headlines

8:58 AM PDT on March 16, 2020

    • Court rejects Trump claims on joint California-Quebec cap-and-trade auctions (Bloomberg)
    • Why everyone needs to stay home: People without symptoms could be spreading COVID-19 (CNN)
    • Governor Newsom: Stay away from each other, close bars (LA Times)
    • NYC sees a surge in biking as people avoid public transit (NY Times)
    • Closing "essential" businesses doesn't mean bike shops; Spain has banned bicycling (and most non-essential transportation) (Forbes)
    • What about housekeepers? (LA Times)
    • Vacancy fines to free up housing for people: a bill in California, and how they're working in Vancouver (CalMatters)
    • A group of homeless families take over empty houses in L.A. (LA Times)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF

Melanie Curry
@StreetsblogCal

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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