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By
Bryan Goebel
8:53 AM PDT on May 14, 2010
- BART Directors Mull How Or Whether to Use Surplus (SF Gate)
- LA Times Column on Fixing Transit Sparks Response from LA Mayor’s Office
- More Bike to Work Day Coverage from BIKE NOPA, SFBG, City Insider, SF Examiner
- Sonoma County Sees Higher Numbers for its Annual Bike to Work Day (Press Democrat)
- Steve Jones Resents Condescending Criticism for Not Wearing a Helmet (SFBG)
- Palo Alto State Senator “Running Out of Patience” with High-Speed Rail Project (Palo Alto Online)
- Growing Number of Retailers Want to Swipe Customers’ Drivers Licenses (ABC 7)
- Budget Problems to Delay Right-Light Cameras at San Jose Intersections (Merc)
- London’s “Cycle Superhighways” Are Mostly Just Bike Lanes Painted Blue (Guardian)
- Chip Johnson: “Richmond Makes Right Move in Deal with Chevron”
- New York Times
on Climate Bill: Where’s Obama? - State DOTs Still Stuck in the 1950s, Lobbying Congress for Wider
Highways (MTR)
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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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