Today’s Headlines
Bay Area Wakes Up to Find BART Trains Running and No Strike (SF Gate, CBS5, Merc, ABC7, KCBS) BART Police Chief to Resign After Nine Years as the Agency’s Top Cop (SF Gate) SF Examiner: “Renovation of BART’s ‘Jewel’ Begins Friday” Culture Bus Makes Its Last Run (Transbay Blog) 93-year-old Woman Mowed Down by a … Continued
By
Bryan Goebel
9:21 AM PDT on August 17, 2009
- Bay Area Wakes Up to Find BART Trains Running and No Strike (SF Gate, CBS5, Merc, ABC7, KCBS)
- BART Police Chief to Resign After Nine Years as the Agency’s Top Cop (SF Gate)
- SF Examiner: “Renovation of BART’s ‘Jewel’ Begins Friday”
- Culture Bus Makes Its Last Run (Transbay Blog)
- 93-year-old Woman Mowed Down by a Big Rig on Highway 29 in Napa (Napa Post)
- LA MTA to Install Turnstiles and Security Barriers (LAT)
- LA Mayor Calls Photos of Metrolink Crash in Union Mailers “Shameful” (LAT)
- Santa Monica City Council Adopts New Speed Limits at 14 Locations (Santa Monica Daily Press)
- “Emotionally Intelligent” Steel Bollards in England Look Like Small Children (How We Drive)
- Montreal’s Bixi Bike Share Program Coming to Boston (Guardian UK, Boston Globe)
- Washington DC’s Cedar Street Gets a Contraflow Bike Lane (Wash Cycle 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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