Today’s Headlines
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By
Roger Rudick
7:37 AM PDT on August 1, 2017
- Plans for Better Market Street Take Shape (Humanstreets)
- BART Workers Get $500 Ridership Bonus (CBSLocal)
- Cable Car Operators Don’t Collect Fares (SFExaminer, SFBay)
- Reason for Yesterday’s California Street Cable Car Closure (SFExaminer)
- Green Space vs. Housing in the Portola (SFChron)
- Oakland Not Such a Deal for Renters (Curbed)
- Marin Rents Reach SF Levels (MarinIJ)
- Millennium Tower Can Survive the Big One? (SFChron, SFExaminer)
- The Big Backlog of Earthquake Retrofits (SFExaminer)
- Pedestrian Killed in Pittsburg (EastBayTimes)
- Chinatown Alleyways (Curbed)
- Another Look at the Embarcadero Freeway (SFGate)
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