February 12, 2019
Housing/Development
- Cupertino mayor: Build wall around city, make San Jose pay for it [Curbed]
- Mayor Breed wants to ax fees for affordable housing [Curbed]
- Spending deal will help pay for homeless and affordable housing, shelter beds [San Francisco Examiner]
- 1.2 million square feet of offices, shops, homes in downtown San Jose [Mercury News]
- Co-living moves forward in San Jose [Mercury News]
- Housing meant for the Bay Area’s poorest residents is slowly vanishing [East Bay Times]
- Warriors seek to build new hotel, condos next to arena [San Francisco Chronicle]
Transportation
- Lyft donates $700,000 to bring bikes, free rides to East Oakland residents [East Bay Times]
- Lyft gift aims to improve transit in East Oakland [San Francisco Chronicle]
- Is high-speed rail in the US ever going to happen? [CNET]
- You Can’t Design Bike-Friendly Cities Without Considering Race and Class [City Lab]
- Disrupting Urban Mobility: Autonomous, Micro, Ridesharing, & EVs [EV World]
- How Bad Is America's Infrastructure Crisis? Maybe Not As Bad As It Seems. [Governing]
- Moscow is world's most gridlocked city [Smart Cities World]
- Cost to Get to the Bottom of Transbay Terminal Cracks Likely to Double to $1M [NBC - Bay Area]
- BART ‘early bird’ bus service off to a bumpy start at some stops [San Francisco Examiner]
- City of Berkeley proposes plan to make Milvia Street safer for bicyclists [Daily Californian]
- Controversial taxi rules have not reduced SFO trips, but may be driving cabbies away [San Francisco Examiner]
- 150,000 Californians who paid for driver’s licenses aren’t getting them yet [Sacramento Bee]
- Gender can no longer be used to calculate auto insurance rates in California and other states [Washington Post]
- Caltrans Recently Inspected Section of Richmond-San Rafael Bridge Where Concrete Chunks Fell [NBC - Bay Area]
- Caltrans postpones permanent fixes to Richmond-San Rafael Bridge due to bad weather [Santa Rosa Press Democrat]
- Can thieves really detect a laptop in a car trunk? [Mercury News]
- San Jose airport reaches record 14.3 million passengers [Mercury News]
- Construction of long-delayed Warm Springs BART West Access Bridge moving along [Mercury News]
- Lyft pledges bikes and transit discounts for ‘underserved’ Oaklanders [Curbed]
Other
- Los Angeles ditches plan to invest billions in fossil fuels, Mayor Eric Garcetti says [Los Angeles Times]
- American Canyon keeps Sites reservoir in its sights [Napa Valley Register]
- Dodd legislation aims to boost agricultural conservation [Fairfield Daily Republic]
- Drought's Over But the Dead Tree Toll in California Keeps Rising [KQED]
- 18.6 million trees died in California in 2018, Forest Service survey finds [Mercury News]
- Editorial: Council must fulfill San Jose’s Coyote Valley obligation [Mercury News]
- Storm fueled by atmospheric river to flood ‘pretty much everywhere’ [San Francisco Chronicle]
- Report: California’s tree die-off reaches 148 million. Major fire threat looms [San Francisco Chronicle]
- Opinion: Gov. Newsom can confront climate change by restoring what we once had [CALmatters]
- What happens when the next big wildfire hits? [CALmatters]