Today’s Headlines

• Melissa Kitson, 44, of San Lorenzo Killed by Two Drivers at 7th and Howard (SFGate, Merc)
• BART Considers Putting Tax Measures on the Ballot to Fund Long-Term Upgrades (SF Examiner)
• SFGate Columnist: Are Parklets "This San Francisco Generation's Greatest Invention"?
• Photo: Upside Down Car on Army Street in 1942, Before It Was Widened Into a Traffic Sewer
• Stanley Roberts: Cyclists Think Stop Signs Should Be Yields, As Do "Operators of 4k-lb. Motor Vehicles"
• C.W. Nevius Thinks Bike Riders Need to Chill Out When Unsuspecting Drivers Put Their Lives In Danger
• San Mateo County Could Boost Transit With New Sales Tax Revenue (Green Caltrain)
• SamTrans to Buy 25 Hybrid Buses (Almanac)
• Google Bike Directions Can't Seem to Navigate America's First Bike Boulevard in Palo Alto (Cyclelicious)
• Marin Transpo Authority to Discuss Bike-Share This Thursday (Marin IJ)
• Facebook to Pay Menlo Park $1.5 Million for Campus Expansion, Including Traffic Mitigation (CBS)
• Driver Who Fled Country After Killing Ped in Santa Clara Two Years Ago Arrested at SFO (CBS)
• 57-Year-Old Bicycle Rider Killed by Driver in Fremont (CoCo Times)
• State Engineers Union Questions High-Speed Rail Construction Standards (KTVU)
• Ever Wish You Could Save an Illegally-Parked Driver From Getting a Ticket? Now There's Hope (CNET)

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