Recent Streetsblog USA posts about COVID-19

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Federal Corona Bill Seems Generous To Transit. It’s Not.

By Kea Wilson | | No Comments
New crisis, same old mistakes. The Federal Transit Administration’s $25-billion COVID-19 public transit grant package contains much-needed lifelines for struggling transit agencies across the country — but the amount received by each agency did not take into account the new reality of the virus, but were allocated using the same formulas from normal years. As a […]

Car Pollution Makes COVID-19 Health Outcomes Worse

By Christian MilNeil | | No Comments
A new nationwide study from Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health suggests that people living in neighborhoods with higher levels of fine particulate air pollution are more likely to die from COVID-19 infection than patients from areas with cleaner air. That’s especially concerning for many of communities of color in Massachusetts, where the legacies […]
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