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Karl Nielsen
  • San Francisco Standard
    Cost of San Francisco Downtown Rail Extension Swells to $8.2B
  • Mercury News
    Dumbarton Bridge eastbound closed overnight next week: Roadshow
  • SF Gate
    'Regularly used' East Bay road to be closed for 2 more years
  • San Francisco Chronicle
    Cruise to pause driverless taxi operations in all markets
  • San Francisco Chronicle
    Facing ‘fiscal cliff,’ BART directors suggest consolidating with other Bay Area transit agencies
  • Mercury News
    San Jose BART extension, beset by cost increases and timeline delays, gets $375 million in state funding
  • Wall Street Journal
    Investors Like New York Subways. San Francisco's BART? Not So Much.
  • Bloomberg
    A New White House Plan to Create Affordable Housing: Convert Empty Office Buildings
  • San Jose Spotlight
    San Jose affordable housing for families to break ground
  • The Oaklandside
    Oakland wants to turn 5 buildings into homeless housing
  • Local News Matters
    Historic Julia Morgan cottages, once part of Angel Island, to be rebuilt with state grant
  • New York Times
    San Francisco Has a New Slogan, and Not Everyone Is a Fan
  • San Francisco Chronicle
    How to get a handle on your e-waste

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