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“Good” Grade Proves Elusive for Area’s Roads

Published: November, 2013 The pavement on the Bay Area’s nearly 43,000 lane-miles of local streets and roads remains in "fair" condition, with the typical stretch of asphalt showing serious wear and likely to require rehabilitation soon. Data released last month by the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) puts the region’s 2012 pavement condition index (PCI) score […]

Around the bay in June 2012

Published: June, 2012 If You Shred It, They Will Come That’s the physics theory behind the Tony Hawk–Rad Science Exhibit at UC Berkeley’s Lawrence Hall of Science that answers the question: How can a visit to a local skatepark demonstrate important physics principles? On Saturday, June 2, the world’s most famous skateboarder and exhibit namesake, […]

BCDC Socks It to Violator

Published: November, 2004 Hanson Aggregates Mid-Pacific, Inc. paid $373,000 to BCDC (the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission)–the California state agency responsible for protecting the San Francisco Bay and providing public access to the Bay shoreline–to settle alleged violations by Hanson of the California law administered by BCDC. The amount is the largest paid […]