Today’s Headlines

8:17 AM PDT on March 25, 2020

Deal reached on $2 trillion federal stimulus package (LA Times, SF Chronicle)
Police focus on education but plan to enforce quarantine rules (San Diego Union Tribune)
Expect a lot of jobs to disappear (San Diego Union Tribune)
Traffic is light (Mercury News)
Air is clean (San Gabriel Valley Tribune)
But what happens when everyone starts driving again? (Electrek)
2.8 million essential workers ride transit to their jobs (Transit Center)
Transit operators cut service (Curbed, Press Democrat, Mercury News)
Don't blame density for spread of virus (Streets.mn)
Half of California's confirmed cases are in people younger than 50 (Mercury News)
More calls for car-free streets for safety, health (Greater Greater Washington, Fast Company)
U.S. leaders refused to sign international pledge to reduce traffic deaths (Smart Cities Dive)
Climate action planning in a federal leadership vacuum (Resilience)

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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