Today’s Headlines
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By
Lisa Ratner
9:33 AM PDT on May 8, 2013
- Progress on Construction of the Oak Street Protected Bike Lane (Haighteration, SFBC)
- Bayview Residents Complain to SFMTA About Switchbacks on the T-Third (SFBG)
- GG Transit District Considers Raising Tolls (SF Examiner)
- A Take on the Recent Polk Street Open House Meeting From Urban Historian Michael E. Tolle
- Watch Your Favorite Muni Bus Crawl With an Animated Data Visualization (Atlantic Cities)
- New “Nimbler” Navigation App Integrates Bikes and Transit Seamlessly (Biz Journal)
- 25-Year-Old Driver Dies After Flipping Car On Lake Merced Boulevard (SFGate)
- Sinkhole Opens in Intersection of 2nd Ave. and Lake Street (Richmond SF)
- Tesla Considers Adding Google’s Driverless Technology to Its Cars (NBC)
More headlines at Streetsblog Capitol Hill
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