Today’s Headlines
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9:18 AM PST on January 4, 2013
- Reminder: SF Will Run Parking Meters This Sunday To Attack Volunteers Who Serve the Poor (SFGate)
- Caltrain Board Approves Higher Farebox Recovery Goals in Light of Increased Revenue (SF Examiner)
- Caltrain Board Names SFMTA’s Tom Nolan Vice Chair (PA Online)
- Berkeley Urbanist: Wider Sidewalks Would Revitalize Telegraph’s Southside Shopping District
- New Walk SF Column in the Chronicle Touts the Benefits of Walking (SFGate)
- SF Weekly Columnist: Proposal to Expand Bike Parking Reqs Would Encourage More Would-Be Cyclists
- Driver Fleeing Police Hits Power Pole in SoMa, Cuts Power to Thousands (CBS)
- Bay Area DUI Arrests Down Over Holidays This Year (KTVU)
- SMART Begins Rail Construction in Marin County (CBS)
- Devil’s Slide Bypass Tunnel to Open Early 2013 (SFGate)
- Elderly Fremont Driver Drives Down Railroad Tracks, Continues Until Stuck, Stops Train (CoCo Times)
- What to Do If Transit Isn’t Convenient — The Cap’n Transit Flowchart
- Atlantic Cities: Transit Ridership Doesn’t Depend on Strength of Business Districts
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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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