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On April 20th, thousands gathered to take their final ride on BART’s legacy fleet. Most cars will be scrapped and recycled, but a few will become something new.
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The first of four episodes airing this week from We Are San Francisco, a podcast hosted by Ben Kaplan, who talks with local leaders and thinkers about how, together, we can tackle the city’s biggest challenges.
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MACRO was formed in 2022 as an alternative to cops for non-emergency, non-violent 911 calls. But deciding when they should be deployed hasnt been consistent.
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CrosscurrentsMACRO is Oakland’s non-police response team. They’ve been running since mid-2022, but how do they differ from police, firefighters, and paramedics?
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Downtown Berkeley’s BART plaza has reduced the amount of seating space open to the general public. The Downtown Berkeley Association’s latest project: customer-only seating.
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BART and Muni are set to receive hundreds of millions of dollars in transit bailout funds from the Metropolitan Transportation Commission. But the funding comes with a catch: transit authorities will have to crackdown on fare evasion.
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On November 16, the state’s Public Utilities Commission approved a rate hike for PG&E customers that will increase residential rates more than $20 a month for electric-only customers. The new rates will take effect on January 1. KALW’s Alastair Boone asked Bay Area residents what they think of PG&E, and how the rising rates impact their daily lives.
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Ahead of APEC, Bay Area officials had warned commuters of a planned one-lane closure on the Bay Bridge. But traffic Thursday morning came to a stand-still for hours when protestors calling for a ceasefire in Gaza blocked all lanes on the bridge’s upper deck.
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You may have heard that a new skate park opened this week in San Francisco’s UN Plaza, but this new public space in the city’s Tenderloin neighborhood is already serving as much more than a skate park.
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What's next for public transportation in the Bay? Hear a conversation with SFMTA Director Jeffrey Tumlin, Transform's Amy Thomson, and SF Chronicle reporter Ricardo Cano.
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State of the BayWe'll learn why state regulators have revoked the permits for Cruise's driverless cars and what the implications are for the autonomous vehicle industry here in California and beyond. Then, we'll hear from journalist and author, Rosanna Xia, about her new book on sea level rise and California's vanishing coastline. And finally, we’ll sit down with the founder and executive director of the non-profit Girls Garage.
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The California Coastal Conservancy approved a five million dollar grant to the San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department on Monday, allowing the development of another section of the India Basin Waterfront Park.