Today’s Headlines

8:49 AM PDT on March 26, 2020

In a global health emergency, the bicycle shines (CityLab)
Bike shop business is booming (Guardian)
LA Times' Vartabedian, who derides progress on California's high speed rail program at every opportunity, has the warm fuzzies for planned HSR to nowhere Las Vegas
Huge housing development at former military base in Concord won't go forward (SF Chronicle)
US Senate passes massive relief plan, House votes next (SF Chronicle)
- Final version of bill has $114B for transportation, including airlines (Eno Center for Transportation)
Policy after the recession has favored the wealthy (Nonprofit Quarterly)
Curb management strategies for COVID responses (Walker Consultants)
Ten designs that are fighting COVID-19 (Guardian)
San Diego freezes evictions, landlords plea for help (San Diego Union Tribune)
Cities are not prepared for this (Smart Cities Dive)
The internet is bowing under the strain (Tech Crunch)
Uber and Lyft are considered "essential" but drivers and passengers are at risk (CityLab)

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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