Today’s Headlines
MTA Still Investigating Cause of Derailment in Twin Peaks Tunnel (SF Examiner, SFGate, SF Appeal) SF Appeal Reader Gives First Hand Account of J-Church Crash Market Street Trial is Reducing Traffic, Speeding Up Muni (SF Examiner, SFGate) SFCTA Report Finds Better Regulation Could Improve Private Shuttle Services (SF Examiner) MTA Cuts Will Include 110 Current … Continued
8:37 AM PST on November 18, 2009
- MTA Still Investigating Cause of Derailment in Twin Peaks Tunnel (SF Examiner, SFGate, SF Appeal)
- SF Appeal Reader Gives First Hand Account of J-Church Crash
- Market Street Trial is Reducing Traffic, Speeding Up Muni (SF Examiner, SFGate)
- SFCTA Report Finds Better Regulation Could Improve Private Shuttle Services (SF Examiner)
- MTA Cuts Will Include 110 Current Positions and 140 Unfilled Positions (SF Examiner)
- After Engine Overhaul, Capitol Corridor “Cleanest Among Passenger Trains in CA” (CoCo Times)
- Dangling Bay Bridge Cable Closes Lane of Traffic (SF Appeal)
- Man Plans to Catch Bike Thieves Using Elaborate Bait Bike Scheme (SF Weekly)
- Someone Stole No Impact Man’s Bike! …Now It’s Back!
- Investment Trends: Super-Rich Buying Up Rail, Roads, and Bridges (Globe and Mail, WSJ)
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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