Friday’s Headlines
How public transit benefits everyone; Proposal to consolidate all 27 Bay Area transit agencies; People's Park housing battle; More
8:38 AM PST on January 5, 2024
- How public transit benefits everyone (San Jose Spotlight)
- Want more transit – and transit funding? Build housing to support it (Bloomberg)
- Judge refuses to dismiss youth climate lawsuit (AP)
- More on Berkeley’s battle over housing at People’s Park (SF Chronicle)
- and attempts to keep protestors at bay (SF Chronicle)
- Bay Area legislator proposes combining all 27 transit agencies (SF Chronicle)
- BART might be okay with that (SF Chronicle)
- Supporters of heavy rail oppose monorail idea for San Fernando Valley (KTLA headline says they “crashed” the meeting)
- Details emerge on how that BART train derailed (Patch)
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