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By
Rob Poole
9:28 AM PDT on October 29, 2015
- Lawmakers Consider Raising Bay Bridge Tolls, But Uncertain Where Money Would Go (CBS)
- New BART Cars to Include Three Doors, Testing Begins December (CBS, ABC, SF Gate)
- MTC and ABAG Vote Unanimously to Analyze Potential Merger (Biz Times, The Daily Journal)
- DUI Driver in Fairfield Hits and Kills Pedestrian in Crosswalk (SF Gate)
- New Housing Planned for Laurel Heights Site With More Than 500 Parking Spaces (Biz Times)
- SoMa Parking Garage on Townsend to Become New Hotel (Biz Times)
- Caltrain to Hold Public Hearing Nov. 5 on Increasing Station Parking Fees (Palo Alto Online)
- Caltrain to Replace 100-Year-Old Tilton Ave Bridge; Street Closures Planned Nov. 6-9 (The Daily Journal)
- Peninsula City Councils Oppose Dedicating Two of Six El Camino Real Lanes to BRT (Palo Alto Online)
- CA Bullet Train Timetable and Budget Still Uncertain (Contra Costa Times)
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