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By Melanie Curry

9:00 AM PDT on March 24, 2020

Leaders may be “too busy fighting fires” to engage with needed reforms (Pedestrian Observations)
Amtrak cuts pay for top management (Philadelphia Inquirer)
80% of the people infected in L.A. County are between 18 and 65 (LA Times)
Open spaces are closing because people aren’t taking the pandemic seriously (LA Times, San Diego Union Tribune, SF Chronicle)
Now is the time to open streets by closing them to cars (The Verge)
“Little Free Libraries” are filling with food, soap, toilet paper (SF Chronicle)
California risks going seriously off course on climate this week (Utility Dive, CalMatters)
Trump did not give CA everything it requested, including broader access to food stamps, unemployment benefits (SF Chronicle)
Community groups alarmed after L.A. city council cancels all meetings; pending actions included eviction restrictions, sick leave rules (LA Times)
Bicycling, and bike repair, is essential (League of American Bicyclists)
- Make sure statewide measures acknowledge that (California Bicycle Coalition)
- Business at bike shops is steady: report from Milwaukee (Journal Sentinel) and Washington (Spokesman-Review)
CA is in uncharted economic territory (Lost Coast Outpost)
But, gee, the air is clear (Sacramento Bee)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF

Melanie Curry

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