Today’s Headlines
Coverage of New Bay Bridge Tolls Focuses on Drivers “Who Slowed to Save a Buck” (Merc, The Snitch) UC Berkeley Study Questions Ridership Forecast Model for Ca. High-Speed Rail (SF Gate, LAT, Merc) Caltrain Cutting Its Holiday Train (Daily Journal) Uncivil Noe Valley Minority Disrupts Pavement to Parks Meeting (Noe Valley SF via SFist) Maldonado … Continued
By
Bryan Goebel
8:59 AM PDT on July 2, 2010
- Coverage of New Bay Bridge Tolls Focuses on Drivers “Who Slowed to Save a Buck” (Merc, The Snitch)
- UC Berkeley Study Questions Ridership Forecast Model for Ca. High-Speed Rail (SF Gate, LAT, Merc)
- Caltrain Cutting Its Holiday Train (Daily Journal)
- Uncivil Noe Valley Minority Disrupts Pavement to Parks Meeting (Noe Valley SF via SFist)
- Maldonado Campaign Accuses Newsom of Being “A Green Hypocrite” (City Insider, SF Examiner)
- Portion of The Wiggle Getting a Much Needed Repaving (BIKE NOPA)
- Elsbernd, SPUR Muni Measure Gets Twice as Many Sigs Needed for Ballot (SF Gate, SF Examiner)
- Jury in Mehserle Trial Could Start Deliberations by This Afternoon (SF Gate)
- Tom Vanderbilt: “Should We Build More Bicycle Highways?” (Slate)
- Predicting Traffic Caused By Development: Not Just a Pseudoscience
Anymore (Switchboard) - Bill Clinton’s Down With BRT and ITDP (Transpo
Nation)
Bryan Goebel is a reporter at KQED Public Radio in San Francisco. A veteran journalist and writer, he helped launch Streetsblog SF in 2009 and served as editor for three years. He lives car-free in the Castro District.
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