Today’s Headlines
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By
Robert Prinz
9:21 AM PDT on April 12, 2012
- SF Examiner Rips on Hyperbolic Media Coverage Around Rare Bike-Pedestrian Deaths
- Drunk Driver Who Injured Philadelphia Boy Sentenced to Year in Jail (SFGate, ABC 7, CBS 5)
- Muni Switchbacks Down 30 Percent Since January (SF Examiner)
- Mission Local Details TEP Proposals for 14-Mission and 22-Fillmore in Inner Mission
- Parking Confusion Continues on JFK Protected Bike Lanes (Change Your Life Ride a Bike)
- With Budget Surplus, BART to Increase Service, Hiring, Maintenance (SF Examiner)
- Bay Area Gas Tax Ballot Proposal Shot Down by Negative Poll Results (SFGate)
- Richmond Bicyclist Killed by Hit-and-Run Driver (CoCo Times)
- El Sobrante Pedestrian Hit by Driver in Suicide Attempt (CoCo Times)
- Concord Boy Injured by Driver While Biking (CoCo Times)
- Oakland’s First Parklets to be Completed by June (Oakland Tribune)
- Palo Alto to Continue Lawsuit Against CAHSR Over EIR (Palo Alto Online, Almanac Online)
- Cyclelicious Examines the Routine Acceptance of Scofflaw Drivers
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