Today’s Headlines

8:39 AM PDT on April 2, 2020

Oh, really? Stay-home orders have cut traffic collisions in half (LA Times)
How COVID could transform the transit conversation (Human Transit)
BART is doing a good job communication honestly with its constituents (TransitCenter)
Build cities for bikes, buses, and feet--not cars (Wired)
Judge to Uber: Figure out benefits for drivers--but let's hold off on the sick leave question (SF Chronicle)
Several states vow to sue over federal fuel standards rollback (Scientific American)
COVID is a strange new participant in fight over AB5 (Freight Waves)
Who is most vulnerable in a pandemic? (Atlantic)
SF halts most construction, LA issues stronger safety rules (Engineering News-Record)
LA threatens to cut utilities for nonessential businesses (LA Times)
New guidance: stay home, but maybe cover your face if you go out (Sacramento Bee)
Choreographing our movements during the pandemic (NY Times)

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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