Today’s Headlines

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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