Today’s Headlines

8:30 AM PDT on April 1, 2020

Impacts to Fresno-area transportation (Stop and Move)
California farmworkers are essential--and largely unprotected (Guardian)
Undocumented workers, most at risk for losing jobs and getting the virus due to doing essential work, are left out relief bill (California Budget & Policy Center)
Will stimulus payments help? Evidence from Stockton's universal income experiment (Sacramento Bee)
Time to take back the streets (Treehugger)
The bicycle makes a comeback (Forbes, Foreground)
It took a pandemic to ease unfair crackdown on e-bike deliveries in NY (Fast Company)
Workers in ski masks helping homeless find shelter (LA Times)
Renters: what you need to know right now (LA Times)
Study: Strict air quality regulations benefit agriculture (AG Net West)
Trump weakens fuel economy standards just when they're needed most (LA Times)
Planning goes online (California Planning & Development Report)
SF Supes approve payout to journalist whose home was raided by police to find a story source (SF Chronicle)

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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