Today’s Headlines

8:49 AM PDT on April 20, 2020

L.A. Metro makes deep cuts in bus and rail service (LA Times)
Bay Area transit agencies to split relief money (KQED)
Small transit service in Ceres to be taken over by regional Modesto Area Express (ABC)
Uber, Lyft drivers demand back wages (LA Times)
Getting homeless people into hotel rooms took too long (SF Chronicle)
Already there's a call to repeal "stale" S.B. 743 (which just replaced a very stale practice) because it "biases" Caltrans against road widening (Daily Breeze)
Don't ban biking during the pandemic (CalMatters)
Is density to blame for COVID-19 spread? No. (Scientific American)
Oakland's "slow streets" were long in the making (CityLab)

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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