A majority of board members balked at the suggestion of an increase to fares, which have been mostly the same since 2009.
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KPBS Midday Edition"Struggling to Survive, Striving to Succeed: Food and Housing Insecurities in the Community College" found that about a third of community college students face homelessness or housing insecurity, while 12 percent don't know where their next meal will come from. -
Kristin Gaspar and Darrell Issa get some final answers. SANDAG's leadership is questioned; SDPD defends its traffic stops. And the number of downtown homeless keeps rising. -
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Some members of SANDAG, the board that controls billions of transportation dollars for San Diego County, say the leadership does not reflect changing demographics in the region. -
KPBS Midday EditionThere's a growing consensus that the region's acute housing crisis is caused by a lack of new development. Environmentalists and the building industry now find themselves advocating for the same solution: density. -
Software and hardware issues have pushed back the launch of a new function on the MTS Compass Card meant to provide more flexibility in fare payment. The function, branded Compass Cash, is now expected in early 2017. -
Council members approved an update to the Uptown Community Plan, rejecting calls by some residents to put tougher restrictions on housing density and building height. -
The state has 250,000 plug-in electric vehicles on the road and backers says that number will continue to go up. -
The price of homes continued to increase last month, while the sales picture was mixed, according to a report issued by the San Diego Association of Realtors. -
San Diego has already met its 2020 greenhouse gas reduction goals outlined in the city's year-old Climate Action Plan. But most of the progress was due to state actions, and little progress has been made on the city's biggest source of emissions: transportation.
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