Today’s Headlines
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
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
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