By Erin Baldassari | [email protected] | Bay Area News Group PUBLISHED: January 23, 2019 at 1:30 pm | UPDATED: January 24, 2019 at 4:53 am SAN FRANCISCO — Therese Watkins McMillan will serve as the Bay Area’s new transportation czar, helming two regional planning organizations that oversee transit and highway projects, the distribution of bridge toll funds and other programs, the agencies said Wednesday. She will serve as the executive director of both organizations, the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) and Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG), which merged in 2017. The two planning agencies work behind the scenes to further housing development and transportation projects in the Bay Area, setting the long-range vision for the region’s housing and transportation goals, which it then enacts through the distribution of bridge tolls and certain state and federal funds. When she officially starts on March 1, McMillan will be … [Read more...] about The Bay Area gets a new transportation czar
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Bay Area skies so clear, you can see San Francisco and the Sierra?
By Kaitlyn Bartley | [email protected] | Bay Area News Group PUBLISHED: January 23, 2019 at 2:41 pm | UPDATED: January 24, 2019 at 4:54 am Notice anything different about the sky this week? It’s been blue from Hayward to Half Moon Bay and Morgan Hill to Moraga. After months of being choked first by wildfire smoke and then clouds, Bay Area residents rejoiced over a respite from gloom this week and relished sparkling clear air and miles of visibility. Recent rains and winds have “put the atmosphere through the rinse cycle,” said meteorologist Jan Null of Golden Gate Weather Services in Saratoga. From the top of Mount Diablo in Contra Costa County, visitors on Tuesday could make out the individual skyscrapers in San Francisco’s skyline nearly 30 miles to the west and the snow-covered peaks of the Sierra Nevada about a hundred miles to the east, according to Mount Diablo State Park’s supervising ranger Cameron Morrison. “In both … [Read more...] about Bay Area skies so clear, you can see San Francisco and the Sierra?
Bay Area drivers keep new cars the longest. Here are the vehicles we won’t let go of.
Instead of buying new, more drivers are hanging on to their aging wheels By Mike Moffitt, SFGATE Published 3:20 pm PST, Friday, January 18, 2019 The automobile data analysis site iSeeCars.com found that the Bay Area led all U.S. metro areas in number of cars kept 15 years or longer by their original owners. Here are the top-10 models in the category in San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose. less The automobile data analysis site iSeeCars.com found that the Bay Area led all U.S. metro areas in number of cars kept 15 years or longer by their original owners. Here are the top-10 models in the category in ... more Photo: Mint Images RF/Getty Images Photo: Mint Images RF/Getty Images Image 1 of / 17 Caption Close Image 1 of 17 The automobile data analysis site iSeeCars.com found that the … [Read more...] about Bay Area drivers keep new cars the longest. Here are the vehicles we won’t let go of.
Is this Bay Area teen about to redefine international figure skating?
OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA – JANUARY 09: Alysa Liu, 13, of Richmond, stretches before she practices her technical program with her coach Laura Lipetsky at Oakland Ice Center in Oakland, Calif., on Friday, Jan. 11, 2019. Liu’s technical program includes three triple axels and is heading to the U.S. figure skating championship in Detroit from Jan. 24 to 27. She is the youngest skater in the history to complete in the 3 1/2-rotation jump. (Ray Chavez/Bay Area News Group) OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA – JANUARY 09: Alysa Liu, 13, center of Richmond, watches a video as she is ready her technical program practice with her coach Laura Lipetsky, not pictured, at Oakland Ice Center in Oakland, Calif., on Friday, Jan. 11, 2019. Liu’s technical program includes three triple axels and is heading to the U.S. figure skating championship in Detroit from Jan. 24 to 27. She is the youngest skater in the history to complete in the 3 1/2-rotation jump. (Ray Chavez/Bay Area News Group) … [Read more...] about Is this Bay Area teen about to redefine international figure skating?
17 Super Bowl 2019 events around the SF Bay Area
Flatscreens woo sports fans at Flights restaurant. (Courtesy Amber Turpin) Gott’s Roadside restaurant located at the Bon Air Center in Greenbrae, Calif., on Monday, April 23, 2018. (Robert Tong/Marin Independent Journal) On weekdays, the Alice Collective — housed in this historic 1920s Oakland building — will serve breakfast and lunch from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m., with pastries and other goodies baked in house. (Isabel Baer/Alice Collective) Copita is a restaurant and bar in Sausalito specializing in seasonally-driven Mexican food, including wildly popular tacos (Photo courtesy of Copita). Show Caption of Expand By Lisa Herendeen | [email protected] | Bay Area News Group PUBLISHED: January 22, 2019 at 2:00 pm | UPDATED: January 23, 2019 at 4:49 am CLICK HERE if you are having trouble viewing these photos on a mobile device Super Bowl LIII — or 53, for those of us who prefer modern numbering that doesn’t make us … [Read more...] about 17 Super Bowl 2019 events around the SF Bay Area