January 6, 2021
The Bay Area’s headlines, all in one place.
Housing/Development
- These charts show just how extreme the rent declines in San Francisco were in 2020 [San Francisco Chronicle]
- Coronavirus pandemic keeping San Francisco apartments empty, rents low [San Francisco Chronicle]
- Richmond sued over plan to develop site laden with pollutants [San Francisco Chronicle]
Transportation
- BART’s new cars spending more time in shop than old ones — problems with software and flat wheels [San Francisco Chronicle]
- The last word on ‘young lady’: Roadshow [Mercury News]
- Pilot bus service from Vallejo to SF Ferry Terminal free this month [Fairfield Daily Republic]
- ‘Slow Streets’ Disrupted City Planning. What Comes Next? [Bloomberg]
- The U.S. Could Make New Cars a Lot Less Deadly [Bloomberg]
- Saluting Supervisor Scott Haggerty as he retires after 24 years [Pleasanton Weekly]
- New York car ownership jumps nearly 40% as pandemic creates mass transit worries [CNET]