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Introducing a new series on Crosscurrents where we round up what’s happening in transportation news in the Bay Area.
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New fares take effect today for AC transit riders. For adults, fares will increase by a quarter for local rides. For youth and seniors, the fares will increase by 13 cents for cashless payments and a dime for cash. This is the first time AC Transit has adjusted its fares since 2019.
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On April 13, a Mercedes slammed into a family crossing the street in East Oakland. A 6-year-old and his mother were both killed. Another family member was…
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Cat Spediacci takes me on a neighborhood tour of crumbling roads. We’re in Richmond, where she’s lived most of her life. Her Volkswagen rumbles over…
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Every day, the Dumbarton Bridge is choked with tech workers commuting from the East Bay to Silicon Valley. Next to the bridge is a rail line that’s been…
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Santa Clara County has the seventh biggest population of homeless people in the United States. The people affected often have to find their own solutions,…
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This question came from listener Michael Mackin. Since this story first aired in September 2016, nearly all of BART’s legacy fleet have new, quieter…
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Taxis are notorious for driving past black travelers. Uber and Lyft have helped to level the playing field, but black riders are still more likely to have…
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From our Audiograph series:Unlike other metro systems, BART shuts down for several hours a day for routine maintenance. That likely won’t change unless…
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San Francisco is home to a fleet of colorful historic streetcars. They run on Market Street and the Embarcadero, as the F and E lines. We got the question…
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Listener Anna Kuwar wanted to know: Why are there no sidewalks in Atherton/Menlo Park? You may not know Atherton. Well, it’s a little, six-square-mile,…
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San Francisco’s Transbay Transit Center is six months old. The huge bus station, and planned high speed rail station, opened to a lot of fanfare. And…