Today’s Headlines
More headlines at Streetsblog Capitol Hill.
9:14 AM PDT on October 8, 2012
- Insanely Busy Weekend Apparently Handled Pretty Well by Muni (SFGate)
- As Visitors Flock to Bay Area Transit (SFGate), BART Breaks Record (CBS 5), Traffic Doesn’t Jam (Merc)
- Bus vs. Bike: C.W. Nevius Races Fellow Chronicle Reporter to HSBG Festival (SFGate)
- CA Gas Prices Hit All-Time High (CBS 5), Governor Calls for Early Sale of Winter-Blend Gas (SacBee)
- Study: Teen Drunk Driving Down Due To High Gas Prices Over Past Two Decades (CBS 5)
- A Brief Reminder About the Real Factors Affecting Gas Prices (CoCo Times)
- Daly City Minivan Driver Runs Over Three In Church Parking Lot, Killing 6-Year-Old Girl (KTVU)
- Oakland North Covers Walk and Roll to School Day in Alameda County
- CPUC Issues “Ceast and Desist” Orders to Two Ride-Sharing App Companies (SFGate)
- KRON‘s People Behaving Badly: Drivers Regularly Roll Through Alameda Stop Sign
More headlines at Streetsblog Capitol Hill.
We will be publishing lightly today and back on our regular schedule tomorrow. Happy Columbus / Indigenous People’s Day.
Aaron was the editor of Streetsblog San Francisco from January 2012 until October 2015. He joined Streetsblog in 2010 after studying rhetoric and political communication at SF State University and spending a semester in Denmark.
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