Today’s Headlines
Oakland City Council Decides to Endorse Oak Airport Connector with Additional Stop (KCBS) Boy in Wheelchair Watches as Hit-and-Driver Who Injured Him is Sentenced in San Jose (Merc) Marin County Woman Accused of Using 13-year-old Son as Designated Driver (SF Gate) SFPD Will Halt Policy of Towing and Impounding Cars of Unlicensed Drivers (The Snitch) … Continued
By
Bryan Goebel
8:40 AM PDT on October 7, 2009
- Oakland City Council Decides to Endorse Oak Airport Connector with Additional Stop (KCBS)
- Boy in Wheelchair Watches as Hit-and-Driver Who Injured Him is Sentenced in San Jose (Merc)
- Marin County Woman Accused of Using 13-year-old Son as Designated Driver (SF Gate)
- SFPD Will Halt Policy of Towing and Impounding Cars of Unlicensed Drivers (The Snitch)
- Sacramento is also the Crash Capital of California (Sac Bee)
- And a Bee Editorial Urges Slowing Speeds, Making Streets More Ped and Bike Friendly
- Petaluma Rejects Plan to Make Downtown Street Safer; Wants to Consult Merchants (Press Democrat)
- High-Speed Rail Money Will Be Released This December (Streetsblog Capitol Hill)
- Mendocino Transit Authority Gets $606,000 in Stim Funds (Ukiah Daily Journal)
- Melbourne Tram No. 916 to Join Muni’s Historic Streetcar Fleet (Market Street Railway Blog)
- New Book Explores Why Americans Hate, and Love, Transit (Planetizen)
- Video Cameras Will Monitor LA’s Metrolink Engineers (LAT)
- Mercury News: “Developer Bulldozes Endangered Butterfly Habitat on San Bruno Mountain”
- From Xtracycles to Folding Bikes, AP Takes a Look at Bicycle Trends (Associated Press)
- Vancouver Plans to Install Its First On-Street Bicycle Parking Corral (Bike Portland)
- It’s New York vs. Portland in Battle of the Greenest (Oregonian)
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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