Today's News Roundup

An aerial view of downtown San Jose. — Credit

Karl Nielsen

Mercury News

Caltrain ridership gets big uptick since electric trains introduced
Mercury News

‘The strike was our last resort’: VTA union has lost its leverage to push for new contract, president says
Marin Independent Journal

Richmond-San Rafael Bridge bike path vote delayed again
Axios

Oak Street to get major bike-friendly redesign by summer 2026
Mercury News

Silicon Valley’s flying car ambitions take off, but can they solve Bay Area transit woes?
San Francisco Standard

Great Highway closure made Sunset traffic worse, data shows
San Francisco Chronicle

One Marin dad has landed at the center of a firestorm over kids and their $5,000 e-bikes
Marin Independent Journal

George Russell: Sausalito Bridgeway revision plan rejected
San Francisco Standard

‘Outrageous betrayal’: Lurie’s rezoning plan riles some west-side supporters
San Francisco Chronicle

Low-income families are fleeing this Bay Area county more than any other
NBC Bay Area

San Jose's unhoused community struggles with clean water sources
Axios

Social Security shake-up could rattle aging safety net for San Franciscans
Berkeleyside

Berkeley gets $4M to help clean Aquatic Park’s polluted lagoon and stop I-80 from collapsing
Local News Matters

Dungeness crab fishing closed for half the coast to protect whales from entanglement
Local News Matters

More dead gray whales turn up in the Bay as scientists work to learn what killed them