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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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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