Today’s Headlines

8:42 AM PDT on April 9, 2020

Protecting transit workers is a matter of racial justice (Transit Center)
Cities take advantage of quiet streets to speed up road and transit fixes (CityLab, New York Times)
Supervisor: Keep S.F.'s Great Highway closed to cars (SF Examiner)
Two federal bills put "access" at heart of transportation funding, policy (Transportation for America)
Coronavirus outcomes in New York vs. Bay Area: speculation on reasons (Planetizen)
- and in Bay Area vs. Los Angeles (SF Chronicle)
Governments using the pandemic as an excuse to hide from information requests (Nieman Lab)
The EPA calls new non-enforcement "regulatory flexibility" and "enforcement discretion" (JD Supra)
Cleaning up energy sources could help drive coronavirus recovery (Utility Dive)
Airlines' move to play the carbon market would affect planned clean energy investments (Yahoo Finance)
EU has reduced emissions via carbon trading even with low carbon prices (Ars Technica)
Real estate developers grapple with measuring, mitigating induced travel (JD Supra)
CA emissions are down (UAH)
Street vendors who can't stop working (Kaiser Health News)

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Streetsblog California editor Melanie Curry has been thinking about transportation, and how to improve conditions for bicyclists, since her early days commuting by bike to UCLA long ago. She was Managing Editor at the East Bay Express, and edited Access Magazine for the University of California Transportation Center. She also earned her Masters in City Planning from UC Berkeley.

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