Today’s Headlines
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By
Bryan Goebel
8:50 AM PDT on August 25, 2011
- Alameda County Temporarily Suspends Safe Routes to Schools (Oakland Local)
- Bike About Town Column Profiles SF’s Safe Routes to Schools Program
- Illegal Right-Turn Driver Injures Bicyclist at Market/Octavia (SF Examiner)
- Activists Vow to Press On With More BART Protests (SF Examiner)
- Chuck Nevius: “Patrons, Police Losing Patience” with BART Protestors
- BART Board: Cell Service Should Only Be Cut “in Extreme Cases” (SF Gate, Bay Citizen)
- Memorial Service To Be Held in Atlanta This Saturday for Emily Dunn (Patch)
- Governor Appoints Jobs Adviser to Calif. High-Speed Rail Board (Sac Bee)
- California Watch Story Questions Safety, Cost of Elevated High-Speed Rail
- SF Beautiful, Other Groups Sue to Block AT&T Sidewalk Boxes (City Insider)
- Compensation Package for New SMART GM Totals $312,000 (Press Democrat)
- Beyond Chron’s Randy Shaw Reviews “The Battle for Gotham”
- Report: World Auto Population Hit 1 Billion in 2010 (Infrastructurist via Sblog NY)
- Give Streetsblog SF Some Love: Vote for Best Public Transit Blog!
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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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