Today’s Headlines
Driver Injured When His Car Collides with a Muni Metro LRV in Parkside (Muni Diaries, SF Gate) Union Street Merchants Circulate Petition Opposing Articulated Bus Service (KTVU) BART Directors, Oscar Grant’s Family Urge Legislators to Pass Civilian Oversight Bill (ABC7) ATU Members Set to Vote Today on Tentative BART Contract (BCN via ABC7) Work to … Continued
By
Bryan Goebel
9:03 AM PDT on August 25, 2009
- Driver Injured When His Car Collides with a Muni Metro LRV in Parkside (Muni Diaries, SF Gate)
- Union Street Merchants Circulate Petition Opposing Articulated Bus Service (KTVU)
- BART Directors, Oscar Grant’s Family Urge Legislators to Pass Civilian Oversight Bill (ABC7)
- ATU Members Set to Vote Today on Tentative BART Contract (BCN via ABC7)
- Work to Begin on BART Warm Springs Extension (BCN via CBS5)
- SF Examiner: “Port Growth Hinges on Rail Plan”
- Old Bus Lot Could Become Site of SJ’s First High-Rise Development Near Transit (Merc)
- Neighbors Band Together to Enliven the Sidewalks on 8th Avenue (N-Judah Chronicles)
- CHP Planning Another Crackdown on Drivers Using Hand-Held Cell Phones (Marin IJ)
- NY Times Op-Ed: No Need to Conserve, Chicken Little; There’s Plenty of Oil Out There
- Cycling Medics Save Time, and Lives, in London (Daily Kos)
- Looking for Bike Parking Around the World (WashCycle 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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