Today’s Headlines
SFMTA Needs $24 Billion to Maintain and Improve Muni Over 20 Years (SF Examiner) Stockton Street Parking Lanes to Open to Pedestrians for Chinese New Year (SF Appeal) CA HSR’s Cost Overruns Not Unusual for Public Works Projects (SF Examiner) SFMTA Plan Could Close Fourth Street to Cars During Giants Games (SF Examiner) Muni Communications … Continued
8:59 AM PST on January 9, 2012
- SFMTA Needs $24 Billion to Maintain and Improve Muni Over 20 Years (SF Examiner)
- Stockton Street Parking Lanes to Open to Pedestrians for Chinese New Year (SF Appeal)
- CA HSR’s Cost Overruns Not Unusual for Public Works Projects (SF Examiner)
- SFMTA Plan Could Close Fourth Street to Cars During Giants Games (SF Examiner)
- Muni Communications System Could Receive Funding Boost (SF Examiner)
- Driver Injures Bicycle Rider at Ocean and Geneva Near City College (BCN via SF Appeal)
- Hit-and-Run Driver Kills Benjamin Lin, 72, in Sunnyvale (CBS 5)
- Larkspur Ferry Terminal Considers Charging for Premium Parking Spots (Marin IJ, CoCo Times)
- Toll Lanes on Hwy 101 in Marin Appear Dead for Time Being (Marin IJ)
- New Light Rail Station Opens in Downtown Sacramento (SacBee)
- Plan Bay Area Workshops “Flooded” as Tea Partiers Register With Multiple Names (CoCo Times)
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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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