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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)
- Was there a coverup? (SF Chronicle)
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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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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