Ryan Fonseca

The people who monitor and measure our air quality for a living say it’ll be a week or two before they have a scientific sense of just how much our reduced commuting has helped clear the air.

Services already available online — and through mail and public kiosks — will continue, officials said.

The agency is projecting losses in the hundreds of millions of dollars thanks to the "double-whammy" of plummeting ridership and sales tax revenue, Metro CEO Phillip Washington told us this week.

Average weekday ridership on Metro's trains is down more than 80% and bus ridership is down nearly 70%. But that's just one part of the shortfall the agency faces.

The action came in response to reports that large crowds had gathered at beaches and trails over the weekend.

Public transit in greater Los Angeles is still moving — though dramatically fewer people are being moved and service on a growing number of systems is being cut.

Health experts say clearing camps spreads people out into the community, which “increases the potential for infectious disease spread.”

The county's transit system is moving to a "hybrid service" schedule and has reached out for state and federal aid, CEO Phillip Washington said Friday.

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Our professional and personal lives have been dramatically upended by the spread of COVID-19, but regional public transit in greater Los Angeles is still…

If you can stay home, do so. But if you can't, public transit is still an option for healthy individuals (who take precautions and observe social distancing).

Among the announcements: the Department of Housing and Urban Development is suspending all foreclosures and evictions until the end of April, the president said.