Today’s Headlines
Muni Crash: Driver May Have Blacked Out (SF Gate) (CoCo Times) (Merc) (KRON) (KRON) VTA Double Checks Safety Measures After Muni Crash (KRON) BART Labor Negotiations Continue (Examiner) (CoCo Times) (KRON) (KCBS) Bay Bridge Construction Moving at Feverish Pitch to Reach Labor Day Deadline (SF Gate) Don’t Worry About Car Careening Out of Control Through … Continued
By
Matthew Roth
9:05 AM PDT on July 21, 2009
- Muni Crash: Driver May Have Blacked Out (SF Gate) (CoCo Times) (Merc) (KRON) (KRON)
- VTA Double Checks Safety Measures After Muni Crash (KRON)
- BART Labor Negotiations Continue (Examiner) (CoCo Times) (KRON) (KCBS)
- Bay Bridge Construction Moving at Feverish Pitch to Reach Labor Day Deadline (SF Gate)
- Don’t Worry About Car Careening Out of Control Through Justin Herman Plaza Next Week (Examiner)
- Oakland Businesses Upset Over Parking Fee Increase, Residents Cited for Sidewalk Parking (Oak Trib)
- “Back Seat Driver” Offers Tip for Better Sidewalk Parking (Sac Bee)
- San Jose Bike Party: “Like Critical Mass Without the Politics” (Merc)
- Fed Stim Money to San Jose for Road Paving and Some Trails (Merc)
- Bush Officials Covered Up Danger of Using Cell Phones While Driving (NYT) (Examiner)
- What If Rail Travel Was Only as Safe as Driving? (Infrastructurist)
- Foreign Rail Manufacturing Companies Eye U.S. Plans for High Speed Rail Development (AP)
- Despite Stim Funds Flowing for Transportation Projects, Few Shovels in the Ground (LAT)
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