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Battered by Pandemic, Bay Area Transit Agencies Line Up for 1st Round of Relief Money

Mercury News

As traffic wanes, some drivers treating Bay Area highways as super speedways

Mercury News

VTA drops plan for record-breaking downtown San Jose BART tunnel, will seek smaller options

Mercury News

Are you up for Mr. Roadshow’s $2.55 gasoline challenge?

Mercury News

Santa Cruz Seven hit with $1,000 fines for day-tripping: Roadshow

Marin Independent Journal

Marin transit agencies allotted $46M in federal relief

San Francisco Examiner

Bay Area transit’s financial future hinges on $780 million emergency aid vote

San Francisco Chronicle

Coronavirus slows traffic, so Caltrans will partly close Highway 101 at Alemany to rebuild overpass

San Francisco Chronicle

In coronavirus landscape, moving homeless people into hotels is a puzzle

San Francisco Chronicle

Berkeley council weighs controversial rules for new housing development

Mercury News

Coronavirus: California secures over 15,000 hotel rooms for homeless, but is slower to fill them

Curbed SF

Bay Area students face housing insecurity after coronavirus-related school closures

Visual Capitalist

Covid-19 Occupational Risk Score

San Francisco Chronicle

Recycling takes a hit in coronavirus California as plastic waste piles up

San Francisco Chronicle

Test and trace: How the Bay Area will emerge from coronavirus sheltering

San Francisco Chronicle

What we know, and don’t know, a month into Bay Area’s coronavirus shelter-in-place order

San Francisco Examiner

Bay Area transit’s financial future hinges on $780 million emergency aid vote

KPIX

MTC Unveils Plan To Distribute $780M Coronavirus Relief To Transit Agencies

San Francisco Chronicle

Bay Area trains, buses struggle to cope with coronavirus pandemic

San Francisco Chronicle

Coronavirus: BART’s parking lots may be empty, but those spots will still cost you

Mercury News

Coronavirus travel: Oakland International Aihttps://www.mercurynews.com/2020/04/17/metering-lights-wirport traffic plunges

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Metering lights will remain on despite little traffic: Roadshow

Napa Valley Register

Vine to go on-demand in Napa amid COVID-19 plunge in riders

San Francisco Chronicle

Bay Area home prices jumped in March, mostly before coronavirus lockdown

Mercury News

Coronavirus stimulus checks do less for Bay Area renters, homeowners

San Francisco Chronicle

Coronavirus slowing after 1 month, but not in shelters, nursing homes

San Francisco Chronicle

Several Bay Area counties will require face masks starting next week to fight coronavirus, official says

Mercury News

Coronavirus: The stunning numbers behind Bay Area’s first month in lockdown

Mercury News

Coronavirus: Silicon Valley business leaders to guide region’s economic recovery

Cal Matters

Acts of grace from everyday Californians are getting us through

Mercury News

Some worry that leaf blowers can spread COVID-19 virus: Roadshow

Press Democrat

SMART considers cutting staff, trains after election loss, economic uncertainty from coronavirus

Marin Independent Journal

SMART proposes $6M in cuts following tax defeat, pandemic

Petaluma Argus Courier

Sonoma County transportation officials endorse November vote on road tax extension

Mercury News

Google widens already huge Sunnyvale holdings with building purchase

Mercury News

Coronavirus: Contra Costa may be next to prohibit tenant evictions, require mail-only election

Marin Independent Journal

Developer selected for Point Reyes Station housing project

San Francisco Examiner

Project wins approval at Lucky Penny site with no affordable housing

Los Angeles Times

Renters hit by coronavirus are eligible for new eviction protections in L.A. County

Curbed SF

What Bay Area homebuyers need to know during the coronavirus pandemic

San Francisco Chronicle

Charts show what the coronavirus ‘curve’ looks like for Bay Area counties now

San Francisco Chronicle

SF to use contact tracing to alert Bay Area residents exposed to the coronavirus

San Francisco Chronicle

Coronavirus outbreak: 13 Bay Area health officers discussing which activities to reopen May 4

San Francisco Chronicle

At Point Reyes, the contest is elk vs. agriculture. The people vote for the elk

San Francisco Chronicle

Driver’s license expired? DMV extends validity through May 31

Mercury News

Coronavirus: DMV extends licenses expiring during COVID-19 pandemic

San Francisco Chronicle

Palo Alto considers banning cars from some streets during coronavirus shelter in place

Mercury News

Coronavirus: $388 million in federal help for Bay Area airports, large and small

Mercury News

I’m amazed people don’t know the rules about walking on a road: Roadshow

Press Democrat

Sonoma County law enforcement report fewer crashes amid pandemic

New York Times

On the No. 17 Bus, Rolling Through the Pandemic in Detroit

San Francisco Chronicle

S.F. must lease 8,250 hotel rooms for homeless, frontline workers under emergency ordinance

San Francisco Chronicle

Best protection from coronavirus for a homeless person? In S.F., it seems to be a tent

Mercury News

San Jose extends eviction moratorium, moves forward with rent freeze

Mercury News

East Palo Alto: Residents face massive debt to landlords amid coronavirus eviction moratorium

Mercury News

San Jose extends eviction moratorium, moves forward with rent freeze

Petaluma Argus Courier

When rent’s due in Wine Country and you’re laid off and broke due to coronavirus

Berkeleyside

Berkeley starts moving fragile homeless individuals to hotel in Oakland

San Francisco Examiner

Supes vote to acquire more hotel rooms to shelter homeless

Curbed SF

SF lawmaker wants indefinite eviction ban over COVID-19

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