Today’s Headlines
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By
Lisa Ratner
9:27 AM PDT on April 5, 2013
- Sup. Norman Yee Holds Hearing On Improving Ped Safety After Deaths in His District (ABC)
- Muni Employee Hospitalized by Muni Driver at Bus Yard (CBS)
- Sup. Wiener’s CEQA Appeal Reform Measures Headed to Supes Committee (SFGate)
- Sup. David Chiu’s Transpo Leadership: Calling for an App to Keep Drivers From Being Towed (CBS)
- An Oakland City Planner On How CEQA Limits New Bike Lanes (Oakland Streets)
- SFBC Presents the Facts on How People Get to Polk Street
- 99 Percent Invisible Delves Into How Public Opinion Was Molded to Favor Cars on American Streets
- USF Students Cling to Free Parking as SFMTA Proposes Meters and Time Limits (Foghorn)
- Former CA Senator and HSR Proponent Now Calls Project “the Great Train Robbery” (NECN)
- Man Struck and Killed by BART Train at Oakland’s 12th St. Station Determined to be Suicide (Mercury)
- Muni Bus Driver Backs Into Car in Bernal Heights (Bernalwood)
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