https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2018/05/five-breakthroughs-that-could-make-you-love-the-bus/559832/

Source: UPS has new electric trucks that look straight out of a Pixar movie

Also, these are small, a much better fit for city streets!

Source: NASA completes full-power tests of small, portable nuclear reactor

in depth

Source: Bullet hell shooter ‘Ikaruga’ comes to Switch on May 29th

Extension will use single-bore method to avoid disrupting San Jose traffic

Source: BART tunnel: Agency votes to move forward with new tunnel – Curbed SF

If your company lets you expense the nicest hotel when you travel, why wouldn’t you? But what if you got to split the savings with your employer by selecting a less expensive hotel? A New Yor…

Source: Rocketrip raises $15 million to reward cost-saving employees | TechCrunch

This is modeled off of Google’s internal/corporate travel system and indeed is funded by Google Ventures.

Why Republicans ended up at war with America’s schoolteachers.

Source: Opinion | We Don’t Need No Education – The New York Times

A push for stronger rent control across California is underway.

Source: Activists are pushing for stronger California rent control | The Sacramento Bee

San Francisco’s latest vision for South of Market preserves Interstate 280, gets rid of the Caltrain rail yard, and has the commuter rail line’s downtown extension bypass Mission Bay, instead dipping underground a mile before its current station at Fourth and King streets. A study to be released Monday, after 3½ years of work, significantly revises an idea raised by then-Mayor Ed Lee in 2013 to improve transit connectivity and create a new neighborhood. That plan called for rerouting Caltrain, and future high-speed rail trains, through Mission Bay to serve the growing neighborhood.

Source: New, simpler plan for SF’s downtown rail extension – San Francisco Chronicle

All state and local taxes would need two-thirds approval under an initiative sponsored by the California Business Roundtable currently gathering signatures for the November 2018 election. The beverage industry is a major donor.

Source: California initiative would make it harder to raise taxes | The Sacramento Bee