Today’s Headlines
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9:30 AM PDT on September 7, 2012
- Expansion of Parking Permits Could Help Drivers Stuck Circling for Parking (SF Exam)
- Countering ENUF, Advocates Launch Petition in Support of SFMTA’s Parking Meter Plans
- Yesterday’s Cable Car Bell-Ringing Competition a “Humdinger” (SFGate)
- More on the Embarcadero Trial Bikeway During America’s Cup (SF Exam)
- Golden Gate Transit Might Ban Political and Religious Ads to Skirt Controversy (SF Exam)
- Clipper Cards Now Work on Oakland and Alameda Ferries (Mercury)
- Woman Killed by Driver While Crossing El Camino Real in Sunnyvale (Mercury)
- SFMTA Removes Mini Gardens Hung On Parking Meters on Clement Street (Richmond SF)
- SFBC Profile: Michael Helquist, “A Neighborhood Leader for a Safer Masonic Avenue”
- The Bicycling Anti-Harassment Ordinance Movement Is Spreading (Press Democrat)
- Lady Gaga Was Born to Ride a Bicycle (in Copenhagen) (Cycelicious)
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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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