Today’s Headlines
Feds Name Muni, LRV Driver At Fault in 2009 West Portal Tunnel Crash (Examiner, SF Gate, SF Appeal) BART Board Approves Study on Running Friday Night Late Trains (Examiner, Coco Times, Bay Citizen) BART Continues Testing New Types of Seats With Public for Future Train Cars (Coco Times) Opponents to File Petition to Keep BART Out of … Continued
9:19 AM PDT on April 29, 2011
- Feds Name Muni, LRV Driver At Fault in 2009 West Portal Tunnel Crash (Examiner, SF Gate, SF Appeal)
- BART Board Approves Study on Running Friday Night Late Trains (Examiner, Coco Times, Bay Citizen)
- BART Continues Testing New Types of Seats With Public for Future Train Cars (Coco Times)
- Opponents to File Petition to Keep BART Out of Downtown Livermore (Coco Times)
- New CA Law Forces Rental Car Companies to Pull Recalled Vehicles Off the Road (AP via SF Gate)
- Activists Plan “Barf” Demonstration in Dolores Park Tomorrow to Protest Food Trucks (Examiner)
- SFMTA Warns of Crackdown on Sidewalk Parking (Noe Valley SF)
- Motorists Urged to Look Out for People Running, Cycling… But Only Because of Events (Coco Times)
- Driver Rams School Bus Full of Children in Menlo Park, No Serious Injuries (Mercury News)
- San Jose Looks to Make Diridon the “Grand Central Station” of the West (Mercury News, Examiner)
- The Economist Explores America’s Failing Transportation Infrastructure (via Infrastructurist)
Aaron was the editor of Streetsblog San Francisco from January 2012 until October 2015. He joined Streetsblog in 2010 after studying rhetoric and political communication at SF State University and spending a semester in Denmark.
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