Today’s Headlines
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By
Bryan Goebel
9:15 AM PST on January 7, 2011
- New Whole Foods on Market Street Will Be “Model for Traffic” (Andrew Ross)
- Rachel Gordon Writes a Pretty Good Piece on the Cesar Chavez Street Redesign
- Caltrain Considering Five Proposals to Operate Rail Service (SM Daily Journal)
- Major Safety Upgrades Being Planned for Caltrain in 2011 (via Mercury News)
- “Jerry Brown’s Talk of Ending Redevelopment Sparks Fears, Cheers Around California” (Merc)
- Complaint from Taxi Driver Indicates Fewer Speeders on Masonic Due to Signal Changes (BIKE NOPA)
- SF Supes Prez David Chiu Withdraws His Name from Consideration for DA (SF Examiner, City Insider)
- Bay Citizen Chronicles Behind-the-Scenes Politics That Made Ed Lee Mayoral Front-Runner
- Hit-and-Run Driver Arrested in Death of Sacramento Bicyclist (Sac Bee)
- Downtown Toronto to Get Physically Separated Bike Lanes; Mayor Not Opposed (Biking Toronto)
- ‘Yarn Bomb’ Hits San Rafael Bike Rack; Now It Looks “Cozy” (Marin IJ)
- Show Your Legs on Sunday: Ride BART Without Pants (SF Appeal)
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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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