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8:33 AM PDT on March 18, 2020

    • Sacramento County residents urged to stay home (Sacramento Bee)
    • In Spain and Italy, "leisure" bike riding banned (Electrek)
    • Do not ban bicycling, industry and academics urge (Forbes)
    • Bogota expands bike lanes overnight as part of fight to control coronavirus (Smart Cities World)
    • Lime suspends scooter operations in CA (LAist, Sacramento Bee)
    • Public transit still operating, some service adjustments (KRON)
    • Public transit really needs money (Gov Tech)
    • Design in the age of pandemics (Curbed)
    • Climate fight takes a back seat to coronavirus, but remains as urgent as ever (Bloomberg)
    • Caltrans suspends homeless camp cleanups (Sacramento Bee)
    • Tesla factory remains open as "essential business"; Musk says driving is way more dangerous than coronavirus (The Verge) UPDATE: Nah, says county sheriff (Wired)
    • CA environmental bills pending: a list (NRDC)

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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