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

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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