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October 3, 2019 By Library
The Oakland International Airport BART station entrance.

The Bay Area’s headlines, all in one place.

Housing/Development

  • Sue The Suburbs: One Nonprofit’s Plan To Solve The Housing Crisis [KPIX Project Home]
  • New office tower gets underway in downtown San Jose [Mercury News]
  • SJSU students blast university leaders for handling of housing crisis [Mercury News]
  • San Francisco market rents soar up to 105 percent above average [Curbed SF]
  • The new face of Sacramento’s affordable housing crisis: College students forced to drop out [Sacramento Bee]

Transportation

  • You’ve been warned: ‘Carmageddon’ coming to Highway 101 in SF in July [San Francisco Chronicle]
  • Highway 101 widening begins in Petaluma [Petaluma Argus-Courier]
  • Support for Rainier extension despite funding gap [Petaluma Argus-Courier]
  • A decade in the making, car-free Market Street faces final approval [San Francisco Examiner]
  • San Jose’s LED streetlights ‘way too bright,’ or better than the yellow ones? [Mercury News]

Other

  • 7 trillion tiny pieces of plastic wash into San Francisco Bay every year, new study shows [Mercury News]
  • Huge amounts of plastic, much of it from car tires, washing into S.F. Bay, study finds [San Francisco Chronicle]
  • EPA issues violation notice to San Francisco [San Francisco Chronicle]
  • What we’ll lose at the water’s edge [San Francisco Chronicle]

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