Today’s Headlines
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By
Lisa Ratner
9:15 AM PST on March 5, 2013
- Sup. Wiener: SF’s Bike-Share System Must Be Far Larger Than Planned (CBS)
- Bay Area Has Most Long-Distance “Mega-Commuters” in the Country (CoCo Times)
- More on the Launch of Free Muni For Youth (KALW)
- Transit Workers Union Pres.: BART Workers’ Record on Absence Isn’t Bad (SF Examiner)
- Opponents of a Safer Polk Street Seem to Believe Driving to Polk Will Be Impossible (SF Examiner)
- Haze in Transbay Tube Leads to BART Delays and Investigation (CBS)
- Lighthouse-SF.org Provides Free Tactile Street Maps of SF For Blind Travelers
- Haighteration Recommends Some Bike Routes With Good Food at the End
- Caltrain Delayed After Hitting Abandoned Car in San Bruno, No One Injured (SFGate)
- Despite Bigger “No Turn on Red” Sign, Alameda Drivers Still Flout Law (People Behaving Badly)
- Girl, 17, Struck and Killed by Driver While Walking on Highway 152 in Gilroy (CoCo Times)
- Hayward Police Recommend Eliminating Red-Light Cameras (CoCo Times)
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