Today's Headlines

Today’s Headlines

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF

By Melanie Curry

8:42 AM PDT on April 17, 2020

UC Berkeley forges ahead with major long-range plan; city objects to short timeline for input during pandemic (Berkeleyside)
Bay Area counties will soon require face masks (SF Chronicle)
L.A. County already does (LA Times)
Trains, buses struggle to cope with coronavirus (SF Chronicle)
Racial disparities: Black people dying from coronavirus at twice the rate as whites (SF Chronicle, Sacramento Bee)
People in Sacramento aren’t showing up to be tested (Sacramento Bee)
Parking isn’t free–maintenance, operations, debt service–so even with empty BART parking lots you still have to pay (SF Chronicle)
Bike-riding dinosaur cheers residents stuck at home, alarms dogs (Press Democrat)
LA automates more ped signals and adjusts signal timing to slow cars (KTLA)
Berkeley, Emeryville automate pedestrian signals (SF Gate)
Beaches, parks, trails in SoCal: What’s open, what’s closed (LA Times)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF

Melanie Curry

Today's Headlines

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