Today’s Headlines

AC Transit GM Rick Fernandez Retiring After 10 Years at Job (SF Examiner) Study Finds Fare Evaders Cost Muni $19 Million Annually (SF Examiner, SFGate) Second “Operation Safe Muni” Catches More Muni Fare Evaders (SF Examiner) Body Found on Muni Bus Hours After Driver’s Shift Ended (SF Examiner) Pedestrianist Blasts Chronicle Editorial Board for Opposing … Continued

By Michael Rhodes

8:41 AM PDT on October 19, 2009

AC Transit GM Rick Fernandez Retiring After 10 Years at Job (SF Examiner)
Study Finds Fare Evaders Cost Muni $19 Million Annually (SF Examiner, SFGate)
Second “Operation Safe Muni” Catches More Muni Fare Evaders (SF Examiner)
Body Found on Muni Bus Hours After Driver’s Shift Ended (SF Examiner)
Pedestrianist Blasts Chronicle Editorial Board for Opposing the MTA’s Parking Study
SFPD Launches Program to Crack Down on Violations that Lead to Pedestrian Fatalities (CBS5)
Driver Hits Cyclist, Says “That’s Just Terrible,” Then Takes Off (SFist)
Girl Killed by Hit-and-Run Driver as She Exits AC Transit Bus in Oakland (SFGate)
Three Men Arrested for Involvement in Brutal Beating on Muni (KGO)
SF Parking Enforcement Officer Injured in Hit-and-Run Crash (KGO)
The NY Times Reports on Efforts to Cut Rampant Disabled Placard Abuse in California
USA Today Report on Dangers of Urban Cycling Misses Point About Safety in Numbers
Pedestrian-Oriented Makeovers to Chinatown Alleys on Hold Due to Funding Crunch (SF Examiner)
High-Speed Rail Could Complicate Plans for Revitalizing Los Angeles River (LA Times)
Peacefully Cycling the Berlin Wall, Where Guard Dogs Once Roamed (Guardian UK)

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Michael Rhodes

Michael Rhodes is a former reporter for Streetsblog San Francisco. He lives in the Mission Dolores neighborhood and is a graduate of UC Berkeley's Department of City and Regional Planning.

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