Today’s Headlines
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By
Bryan Goebel
9:28 AM PST on January 21, 2011
- Crashes Involving Pedestrians “Have Skyrocketed” on Van Ness Ave (SF Examiner)
- Chronicle Offers More Coverage on Efforts to Solve Caltrain’s Funding Crisis (SF Gate)
- Infrastructurist: “Hating on the California High-Speed Rail Haters”
- T4A Blog Corrects Media Coverage Blaming Pedestrians for Rise in Ped Deaths
- L.A. Mayor “Pitches Transit Projects to New Members of Congress” (LA Times)
- Jerry Brown’s Redevelopment Proposal “Rich with Small Ironies” (Calwatch)
- Six Reasons Free Parking Is a Bad Idea (Grist via Sblog LA)
- Muni Working on Long-Term Solution for Noisy N-Judah Trains (Muni Diaries)
- Intercity Buses “Fastest Growing Transportation Mode” (Infrastructurist)
- Redding Gets Low Walkability Score But Some Improvements Being Made (Record Searchlight)
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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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