Today’s Headlines
BART Could Adopt Official Cell Phone Policy at Meeting Next Week (SF Examiner, CoCo Times) SMART Adopts “Legally Questionable” Ordinance Restricting Repeal Petition (Press Democrat) AC Transit Gets $6.7 Million Federal Grant For Repairs (CoCo Times) Boy Aboard Cable Car Struck by Driver’s Side Mirror (SF Examiner) Pedestrian Killed by Driver in Sacramento Identified (SacBee) … Continued
9:36 AM PDT on October 20, 2011
- BART Could Adopt Official Cell Phone Policy at Meeting Next Week (SF Examiner, CoCo Times)
- SMART Adopts “Legally Questionable” Ordinance Restricting Repeal Petition (Press Democrat)
- AC Transit Gets $6.7 Million Federal Grant For Repairs (CoCo Times)
- Boy Aboard Cable Car Struck by Driver’s Side Mirror (SF Examiner)
- Pedestrian Killed by Driver in Sacramento Identified (SacBee)
- SF’s Emission Reduction Efforts “Best in the Country, But Not Good Enough” (City Insider)
- Residents Asked To Give Feedback On Sunday Streets (SF Appeal)
- Antioch Senior Bus Program Saved, Other Routes to See Cuts (CoCo Times)
- Economists Name Road Pricing as Best, If Not Only, Cure for Congestion (Atlantic, WaPo)
- Running Across the Street Is a Symbol of Surrender to Autocentricity (Transportationist)
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