Today’s Headlines

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

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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