Today’s Headlines
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By
Bryan Goebel
9:07 AM PDT on October 16, 2009
- Future Oakland says Despite Setbacks, Transit Advocates Are Making Progress in Oakland
- AC Transit May Be Able to Prevent Cuts and Not Abandon BRT (Berkeley Daily Planet)
- “Buy-America” Policy Adopted by AC Transit Board of Directors (East Bay Express)
- Train Control System Problems Cause Muni Metro Delays (SF Examiner)
- Taking the “Mass” Out of Mass Transit (Human Transit via Streetsblog.net)
- Hundreds of South Bay Schools Holding Walk to School Activities This Month (Merc)
- Sunnyvale Considers Restricting Commercial Vehicles (Merc)
- City of Riverside forms Bicycle Advisory Committee (Press Enterprise)
- Bicyclists Plan Memorial Ride for Bay Area Woman Killed in Cleveland (Marin IJ)
More headlines at Streetsblog Capitol Hill
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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