Talking Headways Podcast: Housing on the Bus Yard
Talking to SFMTA's Adrienne Heim and Rafe Rabalais about the Potrero Yard electric bus and housing project.
By
Jeff Wood
7:05 AM EST on March 5, 2020
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This week on the podcast, we are chatting with Adrienne Heim and Rafe Rabalais from the SFMTA about the Potrero Yard electric bus and housing project. We chat about modernization, planning, electricity use and much much more!
Jeff Wood is the creator of the Talking Headways podcast and editor of the newsletter The Overhead Wire.
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