Today’s Headlines
More Coverage of Yesterday’s Muni Streetcar Crash from SF Gate, ABC7, CBS5, and SF Examiner BART Rolls Out a Limited Launch of Translink Targeting About 1000 Customers (NBC11) Mercury News: “Proposed Bus Cuts Could Prove Disastrous to East Palo Alto Residents” Man Charged in SF and Fremont Hit-and-Run Rampage Pleads Not Guilty (Oak Trib, SF … Continued
By
Bryan Goebel
9:17 AM PDT on August 4, 2009
- More Coverage of Yesterday’s Muni Streetcar Crash from SF Gate, ABC7, CBS5, and SF Examiner
- BART Rolls Out a Limited Launch of Translink Targeting About 1000 Customers (NBC11)
- Mercury News: “Proposed Bus Cuts Could Prove Disastrous to East Palo Alto Residents”
- Man Charged in SF and Fremont Hit-and-Run Rampage Pleads Not Guilty (Oak Trib, SF Gate)
- MTA to Expand Red-Light Camera Enforcement at 10 More Intersections (SF Examiner, SF Gate)
- SF Bike Plan EIR Appeal Goes Before the Board of Supervisors This Afternoon (SF Appeal)
- Palo Alto Will Hire Consultants for $70,000 to Evaluate High-Speed Rail (Merc)
- Will Feds’ Spending on HSR Mean Less Money for Local Transit Systems? (Chicago Tribune)
- Obama Presses Senate to Re-up Cash for Clunkers (News, NYT)
- Stim Funds Go to Waste Widening Highway 91 in the OC (Streetsblog LA)
- Some SF History: When Streetcars Ran on Dolores Street (Burrito Justice)
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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