Today's News Roundup

The Benicia-MArtinez Bridge with a train in the foreground. — Credit

John Huseby

Marin Independent Journal

Richmond-San Rafael Bridge managers reexamine westbound lane options
Press Democrat

SMART ridership hits record high, punctuating end of transit agency’s pandemic-era slump
Railway Age

Transit Briefs: SFMTA, VTA
Railway Age

BART: First Woman to Serve as Our Chief Transportation Officer, Started as a Station Agent
Marin Independent Journal

Marin transportation planners set traffic death goal: Zero
NBC Bay Area

San Francisco considers expanding right turn on red light ban
KTVU

San Francisco considering red-light turn ban in much of downtown
Napa Valley Register

Highway art 29 reviewed
Bloomberg

Inside California’s Coming Fight Over Vehicle Speed Limiters
Planetizen

Should Transit Riders Sit on Transit Agency Boards?
San Francisco Chronicle

This neighborhood’s home values surged after the pandemic. Here’s what that says about the Bay Area’s market
Mercury News

San Jose to fight developers using ‘builder’s remedy’ to downsize housing projects
KQED

How San Francisco Counts Unhoused Residents
Mercury News

H-1B: Bad luck in the skilled-worker visa lottery pushes workers from Silicon Valley and other U.S. regions to Canada
Marin Independent Journal

San Anselmo open space deal gets decisive funding influx
Marin Independent Journal

Corte Madera marsh menaced by invasive plants