Today’s Headlines
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
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)
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