Today’s Headlines
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By
Bryan Goebel
9:30 AM PST on December 16, 2010
- CARB Set to Adopt “Cap and Trade” Program to Curb GHGs (Mercury News, SF Gate, LA Times)
- Chronicle Editorial Blasts SF Congestion Pricing Study While Getting Some Facts Wrong
- Counter That With This Story from The Examiner: “Congestion Chokes San Francisco Commute”
- Driver Crashes Into Former Virgin Megastore Building on Market Street (ABC 7)
- Grist: “Does Urbanism Have to be Black and White?”
- Segways Can Go Where Bikes Can’t in GG Park Because “They’re Less Dangerous.” Huh? (SF Examiner)
- Living in the O to Appeal McDonald’s “Unfriendly Pedestrian” Redesign in Oakland
- “Sleek White Tower” on New Bay Bridge East Span Beginning to Rise (SF Gate)
- SMART Board Approves Purchase of New Trains; Downtown San Rafael Included (Marin IJ)
- Bailed-Out Auto Companies Would Collapse Without Profits From Gas Guzzlers (NYT via Sblog NY)
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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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