Today’s Headlines
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
8:38 AM PDT on April 7, 2020
- Home is not a safe place for everyone (Huffington Post)
- Traffic is light, crashes are down, people are driving faster, severity of crashes is up (Land Line, LA Times)
- First responders are at great risk (LA Times)
- New sidewalk rules for COVID (NY Times)
- Cities grapple over whether to give more room to people walking (National Post)
- COVID-19 may change the way people think about bikes (Treehugger)
- Who has emergency authority over elections? (ProPublica)
- Small shops struggle for survival (SF Chronicle)
- Missing racial data worries health officials (LA Times)
- Courts halt all evictions in California (SF Chronicle)
- COVID-19, micromobility, and resilience (NextCity)
- The soundscape is different (Associated Press)
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
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