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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)

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Melanie Curry@StreetsblogCal

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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