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• BART Survey Results Show Growing Acceptance for Lifting Bike Ban (CBS)
• Muni’s Long-Term Vision: Cut Travel Times in Half (SF Examiner)
• SFBC’s Leah Shahum on How Cycling Benefits Everyone in SF (SF Examiner)
• Driver Slams Into House in Twin Peaks (SFGate)
• Mercury News Seems Shocked at $56K Price for Bike Lane Study at New 49ers Stadium
• Examiner.com Sums Up a Community Meeting on Polk Street
• Muni Metro Delayed After Man Falls Onto Muni Tracks and Survives (SFGate)
• Government Agencies Not Paying Bay Area Bridge Tolls (CBS)
• Roadshow: How Drivers Should Turn Right With a Bicycle Rider in the Lane (Mercury News)

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• New Warriors Arena Plan to Cut Parking Spaces From 630 to 500 (SFGate)
• Supes Farrell and Cohen Scrutinize Parking Meters at Hearing (SFBay)
• Despite Rising Ridership, Caltrain Still Threatened By Lack of Stable Funding (SF Chronicle, GC, PA)
• Market Street Bicycle Counter Set to Start Ticking on Bike to Work Day Thursday (SF Weekly, SF Appeal)
• More on the SFMTA’s Effort to Get the Oak Street Protected Bike Lane Ready for BTWD (SF Examiner)
• Driver Hits Muni Bus at 24th St. and South Van Ness (SF Appeal)
• California High-Speed Rail Board OKs $96M, Two More Years for Contractor (Mercury News)
• Plan Bay Area Rankles Anti-Growth NIMBYs in Marin and San Mateo Counties
• Vibrant Bay Area Examines Transit-Oriented Developments at BART Stations (1, 2, 3, 4)
• Oakmont Driver, 82, Who Chased Cyclist Onto Golf Course Could Get Nearly 7 Years (Press Dem)
• Petaluma Begins Work on Road Diet Extension (Petaluma 360)

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• Caltrain’s 4th and King Bike Station to Double in Capacity With New Operator Deal (SF Examiner)
• State Judge Rules to Remove Some Provisions for Muni Operator Contracts in Prop G (SF Examiner)
• It Can Be Surprising How Ignorant People Are of Bicycling Laws (KQED)
• City Controller Finds Central Subway Contractors Billed SF $336,000 in “Unallowable Costs” (SFGate)
• Planning Department to Reveal Final Castro Street Redesign at Open House on May 14 (Castro Biscuit)
• SFMTA Proposes 2-Hour Parking Limits to Dissuade Car Commuters Around USF (Foghorn)
• Four SF Events Celebrating National Bike Month in May (7×7)
• Drunk Driver Enters Hwy 24 in Lafayette Going Wrong Way, Killing Another Driver (KTVU)
• Roadshow: How to Request a Reassessment for Elderly Drivers (Mercury)

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• SFMTA’s Ed Reiskin Hopes to Quell Parking Meter Furor at Hearing Today (SFBG, KQED, SF Exam)
• Reiskin: We Can’t Keep Starving Muni of Funding (SF Examiner)
• C.W. Nevius on Polk: “Reality is There Isn’t Enough Parking” (SFGate)
• Why Are Announcements on Muni Often So Hard to Understand? (SFGate)
• Bill From CA Assemblymember Ting Would Create Signs Alerting Drivers of Senior Pedestrians (AsianJ)
• Photos: Illegal Parking Around SF (SFGate)
• Copenhagenize’s List of Top 20 Bike-Friendly Cities Doesn’t Include Any From U.S. (Bay Bikers)
• Harvard Names SFPark One of the Top 25 Innovations in Government (City Insider)
• Will BART’s Ban On Unruly Passengers Extend to Political Protestors? (RT)
• Pleasant Hill BART Spreads Leaflets on Proper Bike-Locking Techniques (Patch)
• Attorney: Cyclists Can Receive Compensation From Driver Even if Passenger Doored Him (SF Exam)

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• Today’s KQED Forum at 9 a.m.: Why Are So Few Drivers Charged for Killing Pedestrians?
• After Analyzing the Legal Aspects of Ped Deaths, CIR Turns Its Focus Towards Street Design
• SUV Driver Critically Injures 56-Year-Old Woman at Geneva and Prague (SF Appeal)
• Driver Killed in Crash On I-280 In Daly City (SFGate)
• More On the SFMTA’s New Polk Street Proposals (SF Chronicle)
• Supes to Hold Hearing Tomorrow On SFMTA’s Parking Meter Expansion Plans (City Insider)
• SF’s First Parklet Removal Planned at Martin Macks on Upper Haight (SF Examiner)
• Urban Life Signs Looks at Possible Sites to Move Caltrain’s 4th/King Railyard
• Cracking Down on Disabled Parking Placard Abuse In Oakland (NBC, East Bay Express)
• SPUR and KQED Provide Overviews of Plan Bay Area
• CA Assembly Bill Would Aim to Promote Bike-Ped Greenways Along Rivers (Cyclelicious)

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• Analysis: Most Bay Area Drivers Who Kill Pedestrians Face No Charges or Get Off Light (CIR, ABC)
• Hit-and-Run Driver Critically Injures 24-Year-Old Man Crossing Lombard (SF Appeal)
• BART Can Ban Riders With Bad Behavior Starting Next Week (Chronicle, SF Bay)
• BART to Increase Parking Rates at Six East Bay Stations in June
• “Concerned Marinites to End NIMBYism”: High Turnout at Marin Plan Bay Area Meeting (Marin IJ)
• Surprise, Surprise: “Save Polk Street” Merchants Back the Status Quo Option to Keep Parking (SF Exam)
• Roadshow: SJ is National Leader in Pothole-Related Vehicle Damage (Mercury)
• Oakland A’s Owe Taxpayers $7 Million for Coliseum Parking Revenue (KTVU)
• An SF Designer’s Ideas for a New Muni Logo (Eric Stamps Media)
• Interactive Map Tells the History of SF Street Names (KQED)

• City Departments Not Ready to Give Up Cars to Comply With Two-Year-Old Mandate (SF Examiner)
• SF Chronicle Praises Plan Bay Area’s Vision for Smart Growth
• SPUR Provides An Update From the Mayor’s 2030 Transportation Task Force Meetings
• The Latest From the Marina Times On the Safer Polk Street Situation
• Start-Up Wants to Convert Retired Muni Buses Into Mobile Showers for the Homeless (SF Exam)
• Construction Moves Along On Western Cesar Chavez Streetscape Upgrades (Noe Valley SF)
• AC Transit Cancels Fare Hike In Favor of Looking at Fare Cuts (CoCo Times)
• Public Employee Bike Lane Immunity Bill Tabled in CA Assembly (Cyclelicious)
• With All-Electronic Tolling, GG Bridge Toll Plaza Sees Speeding and Carpool Lane Violations (Marin IJ)
• Greater Marin: Urge GG Transit District Not to Approve Parking Garages at Larkspur Landing

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• Eugenio Mallari, 50, Dies After Being Hit by SamTrans Bus Driver at Mission at Valencia (SFGate)
• “Government Bikes”: KTVU Goes to Lengths to Create a Hit Piece on Bike-Share
• BART’s “Crush-Load” Expected to Worsen With Increasing Ridership (CBS)
• KQED Takes a Closer Look at the Role of Tech Shuttles in SF’s Transporation System
• Seats Open on MTC‘s Transportation Policy Advisory Council
• BART Spends $400K on Negotiator for Labor Contract Talks (CBS)
• BART Police Officers to Be Outfitted With Cameras (SF Examiner)
• San Jose Mother Whose Daughter Was Killed By Racing Drivers: “Cars Are Loaded Guns” (NBC)

• Board of Supervisors Approves Resolution Urging Full-Scale Launch of Bike-Share (NBC)
• Man Hospitalized After Being Hit by SamTrans Bus Driver at Mission and Valencia (SF Appeal)
• San Francisco Bay Area Once Again Listed Among Nation’s Worst Metro Areas for Traffic (ABC)
• Semi Driver Making Illegal U-Turn Strikes Muni Train at Third and Burke, Injuring Three (SF Examiner)
• JFK Protected Bike Lanes Apparently Still Confusing to Visitors (SF Chronicle)
• First Central Subway Boring Machine Has Arrived (ABC)
• Powell Station Entrance at Stockton and Ellis Closed for Central Subway Construction (Appeal)
• Caltrans Still Figuring Out How to Fix Faulty Bolts On New Bay Bridge (SF Examiner)
• MTC to Vote On Reducing Retention Time for Clipper Card Data Over Privacy Concerns (SF Examiner)
• Racing Drivers Crash Into San Jose Home, Critically Injuring Family (KTVU)
• Vibrant Bay Area Looks At Ways to Accommodate Bus Transit on Freeways

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• Should Muni Really Be Footing the Bill for Costly Cable Cars? (SF Weekly)
• SF Students Pedal to Class for Bike to Work Week (Bay Bikers, Examiner.com, SF Appeal)
• BART Now Provides Crowding Estimates On Its Trip Planner (SF Weekly)
• Lamenting BART’s Unbuilt Marin County Line (Curbed)
• More on the New Book Street Fight: The Politics of Mobility in San Francisco (SF Weekly)
• SF Weekly Corrects C.W. Nevius on the Cost of Storing the Central Subway Boring Machines
• Marin General Hospital Wants to Expand With a Five-Story, 919-Space Parking Garage (Marin IJ)
• State Senate Appoints Malcolm Dougherty to Head Caltrans Despite “Repeated Problems” (Merc)
• CA Assembly Committee Passes Two Bills to Tighten Restrictions on Teen Drivers (Sac Bee)
• Sustainable Transpo to Get Largest Share of Cap-and-Trade Funds, and More Updates From Sac (GC)
• Study: Driving With Voice-Activated Texting Is Still Dangerous (CoCo Times)

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