Today’s Headlines
Mayor Newsom Touts Muni’s Highest-Ever On-Time Performance Rate (City Insider, SF Examiner) Union Street Merchants Win Compromise Following Complaints Over Articulated Buses (SF Examiner) Napa School District to Debut One of Nation’s First Small Hybrid Buses (SF Gate) BRT Debuts in Johannesburg (AFP via Planetizen) Drivers Begin Planning in Anticipation of Bay Bridge Closure (ABC7) … Continued
By
Bryan Goebel
9:25 AM PDT on September 2, 2009
- Mayor Newsom Touts Muni’s Highest-Ever On-Time Performance Rate (City Insider, SF Examiner)
- Union Street Merchants Win Compromise Following Complaints Over Articulated Buses (SF Examiner)
- Napa School District to Debut One of Nation’s First Small Hybrid Buses (SF Gate)
- BRT Debuts in Johannesburg (AFP via Planetizen)
- Drivers Begin Planning in Anticipation of Bay Bridge Closure (ABC7)
- 62-year-old Bicyclist Killed by a Driver in Sacramento County (Sac Bee)
- Bicyclists Begin Using the Benicia-Martinez Bridge Bicycle Path (CBS5)
- Yolo County Expanding Bikeway Linking Davis and Woodland (Daily Democrat)
- Making Better Bicycling Laws Like Idaho’s Rolling Stop (Bicycling)
- Berkeley’s Downtown Plan to Face Voters (Curbed SF)
- Gov. Tries to Remove Transportation Commissioner for Wanting Review of PPP (LAT)
- Colorado Brewery Promotes Going Car-Free (Imagine No Cars 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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