Today’s Headlines
Inauguration Day Headlines and More at Streetsblog Capitol Hill
9:21 AM PST on January 22, 2013
- 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)
Inauguration Day Headlines and More at Streetsblog Capitol Hill
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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