Today’s Headlines

8:49 AM PDT on March 31, 2020

Scenes from an empty LA metro (LA Times)
Public transit cuts hurt the essential workers who most need it (Wired)
$4 billion for CA transit--what that means fro Sacramento (Sacramento Business Journal)
Trump rolls back fuel economy standards (LA Times)
Trump wants to give out money without having to say who gets it: signs relief bill, rejects oversight (SF Chronicle)
Tracking data show Californians are (mostly) staying at home (Sacramento Bee)
Cities all over the world are more walkable now, and there may be no going back (Reuters)
Governor Newsom insists on social pressure to enforce stay-at-home rules (LA Times)
Social distancing could be working--but no way to tell for sure, yet (LA Times, Sacramento Bee)
San Francisco reconsiders whether construction should continue under shelter-at-home order (SF Chronicle)
What the coronavirus outbreak looks like in your metro area (with cautions about the data) (City Commentary)
Newsom bans evictions statewide (Sacramento Bee)
Talk of a nationwide rent strike as the economy grind to a halt (USA Today)

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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