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Safety Expert Says Muni Dragging Incident is About More than Faulty Doors

By Roger Rudick | Apr 24, 2019 | No Comments

The operator's main job in the Market Street tunnel is to make sure it is safe to proceed. Either the new trains have serious blind spots or the operator didn't do that.

Oakland/Western Alameda Project-a-Palooza

By Roger Rudick | Apr 19, 2019 | No Comments

Advocates convene to review, discuss and update on some of Oakland and Alameda's most exciting projects and proposals

Update on 5th Street: Protected Bike Lanes Coming, But Not Everywhere

By Roger Rudick | Apr 18, 2019 | No Comments

Safety treatments planned for another notorious SoMa street--but intersection treatments, again, are lacking

I-980 cuts West Oakland off from downtown. But maybe that can be fixed. Grist / Google Earth

Inside the Push to Tear Down an Oakland Freeway

By Nathanael Johnson | Apr 17, 2019 | No Comments

Scrapping I-980 seems like a no-brainer, but the historical argument for getting rid of it assumes the freeway is a legacy of mid-century attempts to build barriers around white middle-class neighborhoods. That’s true of several major freeways, but the story of I-980 isn’t so clear cut.

General Manager Grace Crunican Leaving BART

By Roger Rudick | Apr 12, 2019 | No Comments

What will it mean for the Bay Area's rapid transit system?

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