Today’s Headlines

8:59 AM PDT on April 15, 2020

Good morning! It's Walking Wednesday (you'll have to do it solo)
- It's also Waving Wednesday (CalBike)
A deep discussion about cutting transit during the pandemic (Human Transit)
Essential, vulnerable, and not white: public transit is crucial, exposes riders to risk (USA Today)
Berkeley considers requiring affordable units in every new development, removing option to pay a fee instead (SF Chronicle)
Emeryville gets rid of "beg buttons" (SF Chronicle)
L.A. should open up more space for foot and bike traffic (Daily News)
Confusion, a quickly changing situation, and overwhelm block release of COVID-19 information (LA Times)
New Zealand is the first country to fund pop-up bike lanes, wider sidewalks during pandemic (Forbes)
FAA to grant $1+ billion in aid to CA airports (CBS)
CA approves bonds for Las Vegas high-speed train (Bloomberg)
Apple releases map showing volumes of people walking, driving, taking transit (Bloomberg)
Early indications of the future of the automobile industry (Planetizen)
Creative ways to equitably engage the public in decisions even during a pandemic (Safe Routes to Schools)
Sacramento County releases coronavirus dashboard (Sacramento Bee)

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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