Today’s Headlines

• MTC Hires 20 New Workers to Help Iron Out Clipper Problems (SF Examiner)
• Ca. HSR CEO Pledges Project "Will Be Built" Despite Challenges (SF Business Times, ABC7)
• VTA to Begin Running Some Faster Light-Rail Trains Monday (Merc)
• Campaigns For and Against Prop. 23 Launch New TV Ads (LAT)
• The Progress Report has a Good Rundown of the Battle Over Prop. 23
• Grist Interviews Congressman Earl Blumenauer about Livable Communities
• Columnist Recaps Caltrain's Financial Woes (Mercury News)
• LA Times: "Ghost Bikes Stand in Memory of Fallen Cyclists"
• “The Idea Now Is to Look Like a Pedestrian on Wheels” (NYT via Sblog NY)
• Meditating on Muni: N-Judah Chronicles Suggests Some Relaxing Lines to Ride
• What Are the Top Ten Reasons Dave Pokes Fun at Ped Plazas? (WSJ, NYT via Sblog NY)
• "Captain Bicycle Shorts" Gives Sonoma County Kids Bicycling Lessons (Press Democrat)

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