Today’s Headlines

8:44 AM PDT on April 14, 2020

A plan to use the coronavirus to gut the renewable energy industry (Vice)
Coronavirus threatens San Diego transit expansion plans (Mass Transit)
Caltrans is speeding up highway projects while traffic is light (Tribune)
Gas tax revenue dip is a threat to transportation funding (Silicon Valley Business Journals)
What's happening on the streets (CoMotion, LAist)
How to exit the shut-down (Capitol Weekly)
Feds seek delay on 2020 Census deadlines (LA Times)
California orders car insurance companies to issue refunds since crash risk is so low right now (SF Chronicle)
Autonomous robots to the... rescue? (Tech Crunch)
A social distancing machine shows how hard it is to follow protocols (CTV News)

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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