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Berkeleyside

Berkeley puts additional $900K toward street safety after crash that injured young trick-or-treater

The Oaklandside

Oakland wants to make it easier for community groups to slow traffic

Progressive Railroading

FTA seeks to curb violence against transit workers

Route Fifty

Transportation must adapt to an aging population and a changing climate

Railway Age

Transit Briefs: Metrolinx, NJ Transit, FTA, CTA, SFMTA, TTC

San Francisco Standard

San Francisco Changed Its Housing Laws. But Don’t Expect a Building Boom

Mercury News

Home sales hit their lowest level in 16 years, spurring a big scramble among Bay Area buyers

Mercury News

Thousands of seniors want to live on the 30 acres of Seven Hills Ranch. A 50-square-foot strip of land has been holding it up for months.

Mercury News

Well over 100 dues delinquencies jolt downtown San Jose housing highrise with unsold condos

Mercury News

Opinion: Don’t destroy historic neighborhoods to solve housing crisis

Marin Independent Journal

San Rafael ‘builder’s remedy’ application submitted

Mercury News

California’s consumer savings cut in half during pandemic

The Oaklandside

Downtown Oakland is a movie theater wasteland. It wasn’t always that way

Bay Nature

A River Runs Above Us

Axios

How public transportation is recovering in the Bay Area

Napa Valley Register

Proposed passenger rail line through Napa County is eligible for funding

Fairfield Daily Republic

Train corridor that includes Suisun City gets federal designation

Local News Matters

Traffic safety improvements coming to Bay Area as state secures $139M federal grant

San Francisco Standard

San Francisco Set Out to Eliminate Traffic Deaths by 2024. Why Has It Failed?

Archinect

Over $1 billion allocated to California’s transportation infrastructure

Marin Independent Journal

Californians predicted to travel in record numbers during holidays

San Francisco Examiner

Cruise will return to Giants games, if not SF roads, next year

Bloomberg

Scooter Company Bird Global Files Bankruptcy to Sell Itself

American Institute for Economic Research

A Profound Misdiagnosis of American Transit

Bloomberg

Europe’s Best and Worst Railway Stations of 2023

San Francisco Chronicle

San Francisco’s Population Is Rising Again; City Among Fastest Growing in State

San Francisco Chronicle

Is the San Francisco exodus over? Here’s what population data shows

Mercury News

California’s population shrunk in 2023 for the third straight year, but exodus slowed

Washington Post

America’s Best Example of Turning Around a Dying Downtown

San Francisco Chronicle

S.F. hit with avalanche of requests to lower property taxes. Here’s what happens now

San Francisco Chronicle

Bay Area tech layoffs: Intel slashes 235 jobs in fifth round of cuts

Mercury News

Sutter Health eyes huge Santa Clara lease in boost for office market

Local News Matters

Contra Costa supes file petition to challenge final environmental report for Delta project

Cal Matters

California approves rules that turn sewage into drinking water

Mercury News

Longtime Bay Area News Group ‘Mr. Roadshow’ columnist Gary Richards dies

Mercury News

Assaults on transit workers tripled nationwide; income and distrust may be why

San Francisco Chronicle

Horrific crashes killed two girls 10 years apart. What the tragedies say about S.F.’s streets

San Francisco Standard

San Francisco Finally Gets a Store in a Muni Train Station. Will There Be More?

San Francisco Chronicle

Bay Area transit agency signs deal for office space at this large transit hub

San Francisco Standard

SFO Flight Delays Coming in 2024 Due to Construction Project

Mercury News

And the winner for San Jose BART’s boring machine name competition is…

Marin Independent Journal

Sausalito explores Bridgeway traffic safety improvements

Berkeleyside

Crews start year-long project to repave and redesign Southside streets

San Mateo Daily Journal

SamTrans’ HQ moving to Millbrae

Bloomberg

On-Demand Microtransit Can’t Escape This Big Problem

Newswise

How big events can disrupt public transit over an entire city

Local News Matters

SF nonprofit to spur outreach to unhoused women in hopes of getting city’s attention

San Francisco Chronicle

These Bay Area housing developments are delayed because PG&E can’t get them parts for power

San Francisco Examiner

Why SF rent is unlikely to be most expensive in US next year

San Francisco Examiner

‘I feel like I can relax:’ Lake Merced RV dwellers soak in last-minute reprieve

Sonoma Index-Tribune

Tiny home village opens in Boyes Hot Springs after more than 6-year effort

Marin Independent Journal

Marin property owners to get ADU planning aid

Vacaville Reporter

Build affordable housing, advocates urge California Forever

Mercury News

Where’s the cheapest spot to live in California – and it’s not cheap

San Francisco Standard

More Than 20 Salesforce Towers Worth of Office Space Is Vacant in San Francisco

San Jose Spotlight

Silicon Valley office vacancies stuck in double digits

Mercury News

Will empty office buildings meet the same fate as zombie shopping malls?

The Oaklandside

Newts cross Bay Area roads by the thousands each year. These volunteers are their crossing guards

San Francisco Chronicle

Bay Area storm: Heaviest rain is yet to come

Mercury News

How a series of gruesome seal deaths on the California coast led researchers to a surprise predator

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