Today’s Headlines
Advocates Gearing Up for Wednesday MTC Meeting on Stim Funds (Berkeley Daily Planet) The Examiner Reports on SF Chamber’s Misleading Congestion Price Survey More on the Grim Budget Picture for Bay Area Transit Agencies (Merc) How Do We Make Transit Independent? Cap’n Transit Has Some Ideas John McCain Confuses Light Rail with High Speed Rail … Continued
By
Bryan Goebel
9:47 AM PST on February 23, 2009
- Advocates Gearing Up for Wednesday MTC Meeting on Stim Funds (Berkeley Daily Planet)
- The Examiner Reports on SF Chamber’s Misleading Congestion Price Survey
- More on the Grim Budget Picture for Bay Area Transit Agencies (Merc)
- How Do We Make Transit Independent? Cap’n Transit Has Some Ideas
- John McCain Confuses Light Rail with High Speed Rail (Yglesias)
- SMART Officials Begin Weighing Rail Car Purchases (Press Democrat)
- Bay Area Toll Authority Considering Carpool Toll (SF Gate)
- Whole Foods Gets Planning Permit to Open in Noe Valley (SF Gate)
- New Urban Market To Get San Jose City Council Approval (Merc)
- Reclaiming the Uptown Tenderloin’s Forgotten Past (Beyond Chron)
- A Boulder Bike Advocate Is in the White House (BikeDenver via Streetsblog.net)
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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