Today’s Headlines
High-Speed Rail Authority Gets $29 Million Infusion (AP) East Bay Rail Blues (CHSRB) Draft EIS Released on BART Warm Springs Extension (SVBC) Rail Service to Resume Rolling Through Novato Next Month (Marin IJ) IL Legislature Approves $496M in Capital Projects for Chicago Transit (CTA Tattler via Streetsblog.net) Lennar Unveils Renderings of Proposed Hunter’s Point Townhomes … Continued
By
Bryan Goebel
9:00 AM PDT on April 7, 2009
- High-Speed Rail Authority Gets $29 Million Infusion (AP)
- East Bay Rail Blues (CHSRB)
- Draft EIS Released on BART Warm Springs Extension (SVBC)
- Rail Service to Resume Rolling Through Novato Next Month (Marin IJ)
- IL Legislature Approves $496M in Capital Projects for Chicago Transit (CTA Tattler via Streetsblog.net)
- Lennar Unveils Renderings of Proposed Hunter’s Point Townhomes (SF Gate)
- Ray LaHood, Obama Ambassador to Republicans (Hartfort Courant)
- Highway Deaths Fall to 10-Year Low in California (Merc, Sac Bee)
- Brookings Report Credits Bay Area Efforts to Combat Urban Job Sprawl (Merc)
- Public Meeting Tonight on Gap Founder’s CAMP Proposal for Presidio (Fog City Journal)
- Sacramento’s K Street Mall, One of Few Pedestrian Malls, May Open to Cars (Sac Biz Journal)
- Santa Barbara Opens New Bike Lane and Improved Sidewalks (Daily Sound)
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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