Cesar Chavez Day: Honoring Those Who Feed Us, Even Through a Pandemic
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Respect and gratitude to the farmworkers of California.
Beverly Hills Approves Accelerating Subway Construction, Wilshire Boulevard to Close
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Not an April Fools headline: Beverly Hills is supporting Metro subway construction - three blocks of Wilshire will be closed for 1-3 months starting tomorrow
Five Reasons Trump’s Fuel Standards Rollback Is Terrible
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The only thing more outrageous than relaxing crucial climate change standards? Using the economic impacts of COVID-19 as political cover to do it.
Today’s Headlines
| | No Comments- Oh, really? Stay-home orders have cut traffic collisions in half (LA Times)
- How COVID could transform the transit conversation (Human Transit)
- BART is doing a good job communication honestly with its constituents (TransitCenter)
- Build cities for bikes, buses, and feet–not cars (Wired)
- Judge to Uber: Figure out benefits for drivers–but let’s hold off on the sick leave question (SF Chronicle)
- Several states vow to sue over federal fuel standards rollback (Scientific American)
- COVID is a strange new participant in fight over AB5 (Freight Waves)
- Who is most vulnerable in a pandemic? (Atlantic)
- SF halts most construction, LA issues stronger safety rules (Engineering News-Record)
- LA threatens to cut utilities for nonessential businesses (LA Times)
- New guidance: stay home, but maybe cover your face if you go out (Sacramento Bee)
- Choreographing our movements during the pandemic (NY Times)
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
Cycling in the Time of COVID-19
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Reflections on biking on the quiet streets of pandemic San Francisco
Vending in the Time of Corona: An Elotera Who Can’t Afford to Stay Home Is Attacked
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Vendors across the city wonder how they will feed their families; a Street Vendor Emergency Fund aims to help
Interview: VTA Chair Cindy Chavez on the Agency’s Response to COVID-19
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"All these decisions we have to make…they’re tradeoffs," Chavez laments. "There’s no better way to say it."
No, Bird and Lime Were Not ‘Forced’ to Pull Fleets — or Fire Staff — Because of COVID-19
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A lot of smaller micromobility companies kept their scooters and bikes on the streets. And a reminder: if micromobility is truly part of the sustainable future, it needs to be there always, not just when times are good.
This is How You Do Temporary Bike Lanes During COVID-19
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It doesn't take much.
Today’s Headlines
| | No Comments- Impacts to Fresno-area transportation (Stop and Move)
- California farmworkers are essential–and largely unprotected (Guardian)
- Undocumented workers, most at risk for losing jobs and getting the virus due to doing essential work, are left out relief bill (California Budget & Policy Center)
- Will stimulus payments help? Evidence from Stockton’s universal income experiment (Sacramento Bee)
- Time to take back the streets (Treehugger)
- The bicycle makes a comeback (Forbes, Foreground)
- It took a pandemic to ease unfair crackdown on e-bike deliveries in NY (Fast Company)
- Workers in ski masks helping homeless find shelter (LA Times)
- Renters: what you need to know right now (LA Times)
- Study: Strict air quality regulations benefit agriculture (AG Net West)
- Trump weakens fuel economy standards just when they’re needed most (LA Times)
- Planning goes online (California Planning & Development Report)
- SF Supes approve payout to journalist whose home was raided by police to find a story source (SF Chronicle)
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
Assistance for Active Transportation Program Applicants
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Webinar will cover "How to Write a Compelling Needs Statement"
People Desperate for Space, but so far Bay Area Won’t Open Streets
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Even though motor-vehicle traffic levels are way down and the shelter-in-place order extended, city officials are still slow--or have already refused--to open more space for people