Coronavirus

The burgeoning open streets movement brought on by the pandemic has created more space for people, provided lessons in how to quickly test ideas successfully (like in Minneapolis and Oakland) and unsuccessfully (like in New York City), and shown that the responses by cities to rapidly changing needs can be equally rapid. (Plenty of other cities, including our home base of Washington, DC, have tried almost nothing, instead leaving people at risk on crowded sidewalks while wide streets sit empty and wasted as trips have evaporated.)

The Peach State is in a pickle — essentially choosing between safety for all and the mobility of drivers.

The bike/skate shop/community space hosts a youth-led Bike Club, whose members have been helping the school district pack and distribute meals to students who can't access them because school is not in session.

If people are taking buses, bus systems will need support for more rear-door boarding, protective gear for workers, cleanings, hazard pay, increased service to reduce crowding.

The elderly have the highest risk for dying of the novel coronavirus in the U.S. The car-focused world many of them live in just makes it worse.

The data we've got aren't painting the full picture — and we need more of it to help shape good policy.

There are some city leaders who fear that if they make streets too pedestrian-friendly, it will encourage walkers to crowd the streets, spreading the virus more. It won't. Here's why.

There is likely going to be a lot more driving after this is all over. Plus the rest of the news — just one click away.

Circulate San Diego used census data to determine that many of the people still riding transit are going to and from jobs deemed "essential" under stay-at-home rules