UC Berkeley senior Shashank Dholakia was ready to start using public transit again after finally getting vaccinated for COVID-19. Dholakia, a frequent user of his campus-issued “EZ Pass,” had been using AC Transit normally prior to the pandemic until a few days ago, when his card was suddenly declined.
Dholakia was caught off guard; he had placed a significant amount of money in his account, as before the pandemic hit, he used BART and AC Transit on a regular basis. After contacting UC Berkeley’s Parking and Transportation office, he was told that if his card was left unused for six months, it would have expired.
Is sustainable fish a scam, like Netflix documentary Seaspiracy suggests?
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Trout fishing on Opening Day at Lake Merced, May 13, 1952Photographer Unknown / The Chronicle
Last week, I spread the good word about Sea Forager, a community-supported fisheries company that has been a balm for me the past year. Besides the high quality of the fish and seafood it delivers, a major part of why I love it is because I know where every fillet comes from, who catches it, and how they do it. After reading that newsletter and watching the Netflix documentary, “Seaspiracy,” a reader came to me with some legitimate concerns about the ethics of eating fish at all. Here’s the question:
We’ve created a monster. For a century, traffic engineers and car companies have designed roads and vehicles to enable speed while expecting people to have the self-control to slow down. We post little black and white signs telling people to drive below a certain “speed limit,” which, predictably, drivers ignore.
Nationally, because of these design decisions, traffic violence is the leading cause of death for children and adolescents. People of color suffer the most: Black pedestrians are hit and killed by motorists at twice the rate of white pedestrians. Speed is a problem here in Berkeley, where a third of all severe and fatal collisions are caused by drivers traveling at unsafe speed or failing to yield at crosswalks.
Taplin Pushes to Increase Inclusion
After ending exclusionary zoning and moving forward to legalize fourplexes, Berkeley is still pushing for a more inclusive city. In a huge step toward that goal, Councilmember Terry Taplin is sponsoring a 100% Affordable Housing Overlay modeled on Cambridge’s recent measure.
Taplin’s move is transformative. Berkeley and other cities can best advance economic and racial inclusion by facilitating the citywide expansion of 100% affordable housing.
I promoted Cambridge’s Housing Overlay as a national model in the paperback edition of Generation Priced Out, and wrote about its October 2020 passage. I have repeatedly encouraged other cities to enact such an Overlay. The strategy getting increased national attention. On March 11 Harvard’s acclaimed Joint Center for Housing Studies holds a free webinar on the Overlay’s importance; it’s a great chance for those in other cities (Denver? Los Angeles?) to learn of the policy’s advantages.
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