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Rachel Swan

Oakland

Mother of daughters, reporter @SFChronicle. Pedestrian but aspirational. [email protected]

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  • Muni is cutting service on five S.F. bus lines. Here’s when the changes go live

    1 week ago | sfchronicle.com | Rachel Swan

    Passengers board a 1-car K-Ingleside Muni Metro train at Powell Street Station in San Francisco on Sunday, Feb. 02, 2025. SFMTA is reducing service on the M-Ocean View and K-Ingleside lines to just 1-car trains on weekends in response to a $50 million budget shortfall. Dan Hernandez/The ChronicleBeginning Saturday, transportation officials in San Francisco will cut service along five bus lines, consolidating two of them and ending the other three routes at Market Street.

  • Tech entrepreneur pushes plan for ‘Silicon Valley 2.0’ on Bay Area waterfront

    1 week ago | sfchronicle.com | Rachel Swan

    A woman runs along bay trail at the former naval station at Alameda Point in 2022. An entrepreneur is pushing a plan to turn the area into “Silicon Valley 2.0.”Samantha Laurey / The Chronicle/The ChronicleA Silicon Valley entrepreneur is circulating plans for a futuristic tech enclave in Alameda, on land that is already slated for development.

  • Has the Great Highway closure led to a traffic nightmare? This is the most complete data yet

    1 week ago | sfchronicle.com | Rachel Swan |Harsha Devulapalli |Ko Lyn Cheang |Stephanie Zhu

    On its face, the trade-off seemed simple. Close an iconic San Francisco road to create an oceanside park. Convert two miles of automobile thoroughfare into space for adults to jog and children to wobble on bicycles. But opposition to the idea began simmering long before voters approved the permanent shutdown of Upper Great Highway last November. Skeptics feared the displaced traffic would clog adjacent streets, making it difficult to take kids to school or elderly family members to appointments.

  • If Waymos are ignited during Saturday’s No Kings protest, S.F. officials could let them burn

    2 weeks ago | sfchronicle.com | Rachel Swan

    A Waymo autonomous vehicle is engulfed in flames during a protest in response to a series of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids in Los Angeles. Stephen Lam/S.F. ChronicleWith massive demonstrations anticipated across the Bay Area on Saturday, firefighters in San Francisco are bracing for one dramatic form of protest theater: The torching of Waymo robotaxis.

  • California sues Trump for blocking state's electric vehicle mandate

    2 weeks ago | sfchronicle.com | Rachel Swan

    President Donald Trump spoke Thursday in the White House after signing a bill blocking California’s rule banning the sale of new gas-powered cars by 2035. Alex Brandon/Associated PressAs President Donald Trump signed a suite of congressional bills to block California’s electric vehicle mandate on Thursday, state leaders prepared to fight back in court. The state’s signature climate policy aimed to phase out gas-powered cars and have all new cars sold be electric by 2035.

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RT @demianbulwa: Silicon Valley BART extension seeks new tunneling contractor in yet another setback By @rachelswan https://t.co/Z7i9Vkvu…

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RT @demianbulwa: NEW: Tonight, Waymo is routing cars away from San Francisco protests against ICE. How did the robotaxis become a resista…

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RT @demianbulwa: San Francisco's 33 speed cameras are now live — but tickets won’t be issued quite yet By @rachelswan https://t.co/pdHcA0…