Monday’s meeting revealed Cubic has recorded 10 major incidents accounting for over 33 hours of service outages since Clipper 2.0 launched. “ I want to support growing ridership, and I feel like I don’t have the tools to do my job,” a BART station agent told KQED.

“You are a 20-year-old exchange student from Shanghai, and this is your first time in the United States,” reads the opening lines of the prototype. “During high school, you spent hours and hours on your laptop, binging Gilmore Girls. Everything in your drowsy new town reminds you of the show.”

The cameras gave out over 140,000 warnings, or just over 3,600 a day, to speeding drivers in their first 38 days of operation. These accounted for just 1.5% of all drivers in Oakland. At one site the average speeder went 19 mph over the limit. Cameras start ticketing Sunday.

The campaign paused signature gathering Monday, but said it would restart imminently.

Lurie’s legislation is aimed at making EV ownership more accessible for renters, people who live in apartments or otherwise don’t have access to a garage or private parking.

San Francisco voters will be asked to tax themselves at the ballot in two separate measures this November, in order to prevent drastic service cuts at MUNI and other major transit agencies.

Supervisor Myrna Melgar told me today she was disappointed with Waymo’s answers and that she didn’t think Waymo was prepared for future disasters.

"Christy Wegener, the executive director of the Livermore Amador Valley Transit Authority, said that at the current rate, with about 7,000 to 8,000 accounts upgraded per day, it would take over three years to fully transition all accounts to next-generation Clipper."

Bad Bunny deflected questions at a press conference in San Francisco today about what to expect in his upcoming halftime show, as speculation swirls about whether he will use his platform to denounce the Trump administrations immigration agenda. www.kqed.org/arts/1398633...

Football fans of teams from across the NFL are HYPED about the upcoming Super Bowl, even if their teams aren’t playing. The party lasts all week leading up to the big game on Sunday, and things kicked off last night in San Jose. www.kqed.org/news/12071931

It begins…Super Bowl coverage this week starting tonight with opening ceremony

The internet can be a fun place. youtu.be/OC9RI8_QYmw

Transit officials and members of the public had some choice words for Cubic, the contractor responsible for Clipper, over the ongoing glitchy rollout of a new version of the fare payment system. www.kqed.org/news/12071026

Boots are hitting the ground today in a campaign to save Bay Area public transit agencies from precipitous fiscal cliffs and severe service cuts that would all but cripple regional transit. All this while the loan to float agencies in short term is still up in the air. www.kqed.org/news/1207068...

Automated Speed Cameras in Oakland began issuing $0 warning citations today, with real citations to come in a matter of months: www.kqed.org/news/12069838

Bay Area lawmakers are pushing for Congress to reassert its war powers. Votes are expected in the House and Senate this week on a resolution which would require congressional approval for future military action in Venezuela. www.kqed.org/news/12068657

Right now on AC Transit, people who pay with cash to ride the bus pay more than people who use Clipper or contactless bank cards. This means people with the least resources often pay the most to ride the bus. More from Oakland’s Eastmont Transit Center: www.kqed.org/news/12067737

Taking Caltrain this morning from SF to report on BART extension construction progress in San Jose. Public transit is cool.

Even as Oakland transit officials and advocates are hopeful that new speed cameras will help reduce speeding, they acknowledge more needs to be done to make Oakland streets safer. www.kqed.org/news/12065712

Hey EVERYONE who rides #bayarea #transit : you GOTTA read this 👇 for ME, it's GAME CHANGING!!

Big updates coming for Clipper, the Bay Area’s transit agency payment system….here‘s how to get signed up. www.kqed.org/news/1206571...

Sizeable protest at entrance to coast guard island. Eyewitnesses report federal agents running over a persons ankle and shooting someone with a pepper ball earlier this AM, as CBP arrives at facility. @kqednews.kqed.org @radiobwatt.bsky.social

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“ I’ve been waiting years for this and it’s been better than I ever dreamed it would be,” said Carissa Perkins of Oakland, who has followed the WNBA for six years. Reporting from the Valkyries’ home playoff debut last night. www.kqed.org/news/1205656...

Workers at some of the Bay Area’s most popular rock climbing gyms have voted to unionize, joining colleagues at five gyms in Southern California that are in contract negotiations with their employer, Touchstone Climbing. www.kqed.org/news/12055450

"It sounds so sweet," one Marin County kid tells @azul415.bsky.social while revving the little motor of his #ebike... But can he ride that bike to school? this morning on @kqednews.kqed.org radio.

Tuesday morning on @kqednews.kqed.org radio: TODAY... you gotta PAY...if you get caught #speeding by a camera in #sanfrancisco... @azul415.bsky.social explains... www.kqed.org/news/1205025...

A "Kindness Crawl" took to Market Street yesterday, leaving a wake of stunned, smiling people holding flowers and a contagious good vibe. As the Grateful Dead prepares to play a 3 day show in SF this week, it seemed like a serendipitous return of flower power. www.kqed.org/news/1205010...

Starting Tuesday, SF's 33 automated speed enforcement cameras will begin giving out citations. Until now, they've been giving out $0 warnings. Officials say the cameras have already helped reduce speeding on problem streets. www.kqed.org/news/1205025...

It's been a year since California's #righttorepair law went into effect, but a recent report shows that some companies compliance with the law needs a little fixing. www.kqed.org/news/1204960...

Glad to join KQED’s “Morning Edition” today to discuss Trump’s plans to reopen Alcatraz as a federal prison. And, yes, the conversation about spending extraordinary sums on that prison project occurred on public radio which is losing federal funds under Trump. omny.fm/shows/kqed-s...

The Trump administration is naming names of the groups it intends to go after in its crusade to root out what it calls pervasive antisemitism on college campuses. Students for Justice in Palestine, Middle East Studies centers, etc. UC Berkeley Chancellor testifies. www.kqed.org/news/1204725...

BREAKING: ICE agents clashed w/protesters outside San Francisco's immigration courthouse this morning. At one point, an ICE SUV drove through protesters trying to stop an immigration arrest. A woman, holding onto its hood, was thrown off. missionlocal.org/2025/07/vide...

Major League Cricket’s debut at the Oakland Coliseum was a slugfest - and fans were stoked. www.kqed.org/news/1204430...

The Oakland Coliseum is getting ready for its Major League Cricket debut tomorrow. More to come on @kqednews.kqed.org

SF Immigration Court is closed for the day after activists picketed the entrance this afternoon. This follows arrests of at least two people by ICE earlier today at the courthouse. Activists say they plan to picket again if ICE attempts more arrests at court. www.kqed.org/news/12043596

My colleague @azul415.bsky.social checked out this #Climate scientists and meteorologists marathon livestream and tells us about this morning on @kqednews.kqed.org radio: wclivestream.com

Bacon wrapped hot dogs are perhaps the bay's most popular street food. But where do they come from? What's it like to do this work? And why do some local businesses and gvmt's oppose the vendors who sell them? Listen on the Bay Curious podcast! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...

Newsom didn't include additional funding for mass transit in his state budget revision today. A separate push by Bay Area lawmakers is seeking to get public transit a new business model. If it fails, BART could eliminate 2 entire lines starting in 2027. www.kqed.org/news/1203939...

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One business owner I spoke to said that if the tariffs continue for much longer she would be forced to close. www.kqed.org/news/1203693...

Got 420 plans this weekend? If you're heading to Hippie Hill in SF, things might look a little different than you're expecting. Check out this guide for more on that, alternative events, plus some tips on where it's a better idea NOT to smoke. www.kqed.org/news/1203254...

Tariffs are creating a mini sales boom for Bay Area bike shops like The New Wheel, but a crisis is looming in 2-3 months when domestic stock gets used up. www.kqed.org/news/12035335

A city of Oakland program that has long provided free meals to thousands of children during the summer will not be offered this year due to “severe city budget constraints,” officials confirmed this week. www.kqed.org/news/12034895

One person who worked for a third party vendor of the A's got $1500 for 15 years of service, or $100 per year. Some got nothing at all from the Oakland Coliseum Vendor Assistance Fund. For KQEDs’s The Bay podcast: 👂 www.kqed.org/news/1203460...