Today's News Roundup Credit Karl Nielsen San Francisco Chronicle Hundreds of S.F. employees are under quarantine as omicron strains city services Mercury News Why won’t BART change its gates to stop the fare cheaters? Roadshow North Bay Business Journal Caltrans rolling out SMART rail plan linking Sonoma, Marin, Solano counties San Francisco Examiner San Francisco’s Lake Street could be among first closed to through-traffic permanently Local News More than 100 dead or dying pine trees removed to prevent fires along Hwy. 24 Patch Martinez Roads Ranked: See How They Compare To Rest Of Bay Area Patch Cupertino's Roads Ranked: How They Compare To Rest Of Bay Area Bloomberg How the Pandemic Supercharged Sprawl Marin Independent Journal Marin coast project aims for turtle restoration San Francisco Chronicle Low numbers of baby salmon portend disaster for endangered California fish Cal Matters No, California’s drought isn’t over. Here’s why.