Today’s Headlines
More headlines at Streetsblog Capitol Hill
9:22 AM PDT on October 12, 2012
- Opponents Introduce Ballot Initiative to Kill the Central Subway (SF Exam)
- Berkeley’s First Sunday Streets Kicks Off on Shattuck Ave. This Weekend (Berkeleyside)
- SF Ranked Second-Most Congested City in US After LA (ABC 7)
- Caltrans to Fund Green Bike Lane on San Mateo’s Alpine Road at Hwy 280 Overpass (Almanac)
- In Case You Haven’t Noticed: Sidewalk Parking Tolerated by SFMTA, Despite Being Illegal (SF Weekly)
- Board of Supervisors to Decide On Approving SFMTA’s Fumbled Land Deal Tuesday (SFExam)
- Ray LaHood, Nancy Pelosi in Town for Yesterday’s Central Subway Grant Announcement (CBS 5)
- Mountain View Police Crack Down on Speeding Drivers on California Ave. After Ped Deaths (CBS 5)
- CA’s High Gas Prices Drop Slowly (SacBee), But There’s No Easy Fix For Them (Merc)
- BART Quietly Closes, Reopens Bids on Contested Millbrae Development Project (Bay Citizen)
- SFGate Spotlights Use of Cargo Bikes for Everyday Transportation in the Bay Area
- Planning, Park/Rec Commissions Change Shadow Restrictions to Permit Transbay Tower (City Insider)
- A Look At BART’s Game Day Ridership (UC Berkeley)
- SPUR Discusses Park(ing) Day, SF’s Legacy of “Iterative Placemaking”
- Planning Dept. to Hold Community Meeting on Haight-Ashbury Street Improvements (Uppercasing)
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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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