Today’s Headlines
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9:49 AM PST on January 18, 2013
- SFMTA Continues Negotiations to Lease Pagoda Palace for Central Subway Extraction (SF Exam)
- Families of Victims in New Years Day Car Wreck Seek Funds for Funeral Costs (SF Weekly)
- BART Pushing Its Limits to Relieve Crowding for Its Ballooning Ridership (SF Weekly)
- BART Also Seismically Retrofitting the Transbay Tube — Beware of Late-Night Delays (ABC)
- Driver Crashes Into Apartment Building at Potrero and 21st (Mission Local)
- The Garage Owner’s Nemesis: The Sloppy Street Parker Who Drives Infrequently (SF Weekly)
- SF Weekly Bike Columnist: “I Don’t Care About Lance Armstrong”
- San Mateo County Health Dept. Wants Contractors to Help Promote Walking and Biking (Cyclelicious)
- Under New State Law, Los Angeles Seeks EIR Exemption for Its Bike Plan (Streetsblog LA)
- Amtrak Teams Up With CAHSRA to Buy Trains They Can Both Use (CBS)
- Land Acquisition Underway for CA High-Speed Rail (Rail Journal)
- The Wave of the Future: Big-City Mayors Tout Protected Bike Lanes as Economic Must-Haves (USAT)
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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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