Today’s Headlines

  • SFBC Issues Endorsements for Local Candidates in November Election (SFBike.org/vote)
  • Mission Loc@l Profiles the Bike Coalition’s Valet Parking Crew, Who Park 10,000 Bikes a Year
  • SF Seeks $52k in Legal Fees from Rob Anderson’s Coalition for Adequate Review (SF Examiner)
  • SFMTA Will Install Speed Radar Signs on Masonic Avenue (BIKE NOPA)
  • Young Driver Hits, Injures Group of Cross Country Runners in Petaluma (Marin IJ)
  • Driver Who Killed Pedestrian on Alameda Shoreline to Get 11 Years Under Plea Bargain (SF Gate)
  • Shoup Asks Cato Institute to Analyze Free Parking Policy for Its Employees in D.C. (Streetsblog NY)
  • In Letter to Obama, NRDC, Other Environmental Groups Call for 60MPG by 2025 (Switchboard)
  • Rumored Muni Driver Sickout May Not Happen, But SFMTA Preparing Nonetheless (SF Examiner)
  • Former GG Bridge District Employee Arrested on Charges of Embezzlement (SF Gate)
  • AC Transit Board Candidates “Press Ahead, Off the Radar” (Bay Citizen)

We’re taking the day off along with our New York colleagues to observe Rosh Hashanah. We’ll be back in full force Monday.

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Today’s Headlines

By Bryan Goebel |
Advocates Succeed in Stopping Ferry Building Plaza Parking Proposal (SF Examiner) Pedestrian Killed by Driver Fleeing North Beach Shooting Scene (KTVU, SF Appeal)  SF Bicyclist Run Down and Robbed in Hit-and-Run near Glen Park BART (SF Exam via SF Appeal) BIKE NOPA: SFPD Vows More Monitoring of Illegal Red Light Turns at Fell/Masonic  Muni says […]

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Reader Sean Rea witnessed a pretty brazen act of dangerous and petty driving behavior last Thursday on downtown Mission Street: Another hit-and-run on a vulnerable street user. But it wasn’t just any ordinary victim this driver knicked and fled from. It was an officer of the SF Police Department: I was riding down Mission (due to closure of Howard […]

Video Shows Driver Attempting to Ram SFSU Lecturer on Bike

By Aaron Bialick |
Last night, Anthony Ryan was biking home from his job as a lecturer on fine arts at SF State University when he was nearly rammed by a motorist on Phelan Avenue. Ryan says the driver tried to door him and run him over multiple times. He posted footage taken by another driver showing the end of the encounter, when the assailant attempted to […]

Today’s Headlines

By Bryan Goebel |
San Francisco Nurse Killed by a Driver While Walking to Work (BCN via CBS5) Couple Accused in Hit-and-Run Death of USC Student Refuses Plea Deal (LAT) Muni Driver Commits Suicide by Jumping Off the Golden Gate Bridge (SF Weekly) SF Examiner: "Group Seeks to Derail Subway Project" "Cash for Clunkers" Senate Debate: McCain’s Talking Sense, […]