Rachel Swan
Reporter at San Francisco Chronicle
Mother of daughters, reporter @SFChronicle. Pedestrian but aspirational. [email protected]
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1 week ago |
sfchronicle.com | Rachel Swan
At the height of San Francisco’s car break-in epidemic, phones were ringing non-stop at glass repair shops, and business was booming. “We used to get 60 to 80 calls a day,” said Hank Wee, manager of In & Out Auto Glass, a large garage on Bayshore Boulevard. He remembered how the shop was abuzz in 2017, a year when thousands of people returned to their cars to find windshields splintered and glass lodged in their door frames.
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sfchronicle.com | Rachel Swan
Determined to combat a rising tide of fare evasion on San Francisco Muni buses, the city’s transportation agency has nearly doubled the number of payment inspections it conducts per hour. That effort appears to be working. Data collected by the Municipal Transportation Agency shows a 6% increase in the amount of revenue collected for every rider who boarded the system, from February 2024 to February 2025.
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sfchronicle.com | Rachel Swan
Frequent BART riders may have noticed a strange phenomenon in recent months: The sudden rise of a carefree commuter who boards the train, whips out a laptop and proceeds to work. This type of behavior would have seemed brazen in 2019, when trains were oppressively crowded and riders sensed their vulnerability to theft and other forms of disorder. Now BART appears to be course-correcting.
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2 weeks ago |
sfchronicle.com | Rachel Swan
San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie will soon allow Waymo robotaxies on Market Street, a move that would bring car traffic to a downtown artery where private automobiles remain banned.
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2 weeks ago |
sfchronicle.com | Rachel Swan
Marin County — with its affluent demographic, eco-green sensibility and robust network of cycling paths — represents a near-perfect laboratory for e-bikes. Residents have the money to buy these expensive devices, and many view them as an expression of protecting the environment, or as a tool to make their children more independent. Because of sprawl in the county, kids need efficient transportation to get to school, and e-bikes fit the bill.
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