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Mother of daughters, reporter @SFChronicle. Pedestrian but aspirational. rswan@sfchronicle.com
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Some Waymos have picked up an old San Francisco habit: parking in bike lanes

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By Rachel Swan 
| San Francisco Chronicle
Cyclists in San Francisco have noticed something new about the cars illegally parking in bike lanes: They don’t always have drivers. That was apparent when a video circulated this week on the social media site Reddit, showing a Waymo robotaxi parked in the green cycling zone near Oracle ballpark. The car sits with its lights blinking as an electric scooter and a cyclist weave perilously around it, along with other motorists who have to change lanes to avoid the obstruction. “C’mon Waymo.
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This Bay Area highway was known as ‘Blood Alley.’ Rebuilding it could cost $11 billion Original

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By Rachel Swan 
| San Francisco Chronicle
Two hours is far too long to spend driving from Santa Rosa to Vallejo, partly on a single-lane highway with your tires at water level. Halfway home, Robert Donohoe had suffered enough. He really needed to pee. Parking his truck at a turn-off called Vista Point, he got out and shaded his eyes. It was a scorching June afternoon, wind whipping the thistles and cordgrass on a spit of land that dipped into San Pablo Bay.
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Bay Area transit leaders have a message: Don’t drive to the World Cup games at Levi’s Stadium

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By Rachel Swan 
| San Francisco Chronicle
Bay Area transit leaders have a message for anyone attending a World Cup game at Levi’s Stadium: You can get there without slogging through traffic. You don’t even have to teleport. But you may have to ride multiple transit systems. “The Bay Area is no stranger to hosting big events,” said BART General Manager Bob Powers, addressing reporters alongside several other officials at Powell Street Station on Tuesday morning.
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