Today’s Headlines
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By
Bryan Goebel
9:44 AM PST on January 12, 2011
- Ed Lee Sworn In at City Hall; Becomes SF’s First Asian-American Mayor (SF Gate, SF Examiner)
- BOS Prez David Chiu Doles Out Committee Assignments (City Insider, SF Examiner)
- PCOs Ramp Up Parking Enforcement (Why not extend metering hours too?) (City Insider, SF Exam)
- The Hidden Environmental Cost of Parking (Infrastructurist)
- Two Meetings Being Held This Month to Discuss the State and Future of Caltrain (Roadshow)
- Santa Cruz City Council Votes to Move Pacific Coast Bike Trail; Safety Study Called (Santa Cruz Sentinel)
- LA MTA Set to Retire Its Last Diesel Bus (LA Times)
- “Oil Spill Panel Calls for Sweeping Changes” (LA Times)
- New Transit Blog Takes the Operator’s Perspective (Bus Driver Stories via Muni Diaries)
- Santa Monica Puts Up the Charles Gandy Signal (SM Daily Press via Sblog LA)
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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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