Today’s Headlines

8:59 AM PDT on July 2, 2010

Coverage of New Bay Bridge Tolls Focuses on Drivers "Who Slowed to Save a Buck" (Merc, The Snitch)
UC Berkeley Study Questions Ridership Forecast Model for Ca. High-Speed Rail (SF Gate, LAT, Merc)
Caltrain Cutting Its Holiday Train (Daily Journal)
Uncivil Noe Valley Minority Disrupts Pavement to Parks Meeting (Noe Valley SF via SFist)
Maldonado Campaign Accuses Newsom of Being "A Green Hypocrite" (City Insider, SF Examiner)
Portion of The Wiggle Getting a Much Needed Repaving (BIKE NOPA)
Elsbernd, SPUR Muni Measure Gets Twice as Many Sigs Needed for Ballot (SF Gate, SF Examiner)
Jury in Mehserle Trial Could Start Deliberations by This Afternoon (SF Gate)
Tom Vanderbilt: "Should We Build More Bicycle Highways?" (Slate)
Predicting Traffic Caused By Development: Not Just a PseudoscienceAnymore (Switchboard)
Bill Clinton's Down With BRT and ITDP (Transpo Nation)

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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