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Lots of attention on Cruise losing its license to drive; Has massive housing boom in Berkeley led to lower rents?

8:49 AM PDT on October 25, 2023

  • Weeks after a pedestrian was pinned under one of its robocars, DMV yanks Cruise license to operate without a driver (SF Examiner, LA Times, Reuters, Sacramento Bee)
  • Has the massive housing building boom in Berkeley lowered rents yet? (Berkeleyside)
  • Berkeley planning commission may loosen rules for housing at BART station (Berkeleyside)
  • California's Central Valley is suffering the effects of the changing climate (LA Times)
  • Women in Iceland - including the Prime Minister - strike for equal pay, end to violence (AP)

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Melanie Curry
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Streetsblog California editor Melanie Curry has been thinking about transportation, and how to improve conditions for bicyclists, ever since commuting to school by bike long before bike lanes were a thing. She was Managing Editor at the East Bay Express, editor of Access Magazine for the University of California Transportation Center, and earned her Masters in City Planning from UC Berkeley.

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