Today’s Headlines

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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