Today’s Headlines
More headlines at Streetsblog Capitol Hill
By
Robert Prinz
9:35 AM PDT on April 24, 2012
- BART Staff Recommends Canadian Firm to Build New Train Cars (SFGate, Bay Citizen, BART.gov)
- Man in Wheelchair Killed by Muni Train at Civic Center Station (CBS 5, Muni Diaries, SFGate)
- Mission Local Details SFMTA’s TEP Proposals for Mission Street
- SFMTA: Delay in Adopting Muni App is About Evaluating Options (CBS 5)
- AC Transit Sets Wednesday Hearing for East Bay BRT Project (CoCo Times)
- Proposed Bill Would Extend Cell Phone Fines to Bicycle Riders (SF Examiner)
- Bike Thefts on the Rise in Upper Noe Valley (Noe Valley SF)
- Palo Alto Proposes Microwave Traffic Sensors for Ross Road Bike Boulevard (Palo Alto Online)
- Alameda County Safe Routes to School Program Launches “BikeMobile” Fix-it Service (Sac Bee)
- New Golden Gate Bridge Radar Signs Show Bicyclists’ Speed (PR via SFGate)
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