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On Wednesday, the California Supreme Court issued a ruling ending a nearly five-year legal battle for over $545 million in Bay Area bridge tolls. 

BART and the Metropolitan Transportation Commission launched Clipper BayPass on Monday, a two-year pilot program providing free public transit to about 50,000 Bay Area residents, including 12,000 UC Berkeley students.

Gov. Gavin Newsom announced plans to invest $9.1 billion in climate-friendly transportation and infrastructure projects in a press release Thursday.

AC Transit’s COVID-19 safety measures, past and projected federal financial support for pandemic-related revenue losses and ongoing green initiatives, were among the topics covered at the 2021 virtual AC Transit/UC Berkeley Class Pass Online Forum.

Beginning Monday, BART will run trains more frequently during weekday peak commute hours.

BART will participate in the Clipper START program, which is set to offer a 20% fare discount to qualifying BART riders, according to a Wednesday press release.

Cities were built to be scalable systems. They weren’t modeled for thousands of underpaid drivers to “pick up Divya and drop off Varsha next” all day.

Let’s give a hearty “Go Bears” to UC Berkeley’s famous fictional alumni and faculty from some of the most iconic books, movies and television series.

Authored by San Francisco state Assemblymember David Chiu, AB 2923 allows BART to streamline the planning and construction of housing projects on its property. And as contentious as the politics around this legislation may have been, its eventual enactment underscores a growing seriousness of purpose around the Bay Area about bringing real solutions to the region’s housing crisis to the fore.

The Metropolitan Transportation Commission released an action plan for its Public Lands Study earlier this month in which it identified nearly 700 acres of public land near transit services in the Bay Area that could potentially be used for lower- and moderate-income resident housing.