Today’s Headlines
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8:56 AM PDT on May 23, 2013
- Damaged Overhead Muni Wires at Carl and Cole Shut Down N-Judah for an Evening (ABC)
- Finally: SFMTA to Launch New, More “Customer-Friendly” Website
- If BART Lifts the Bike Blackouts Today, Many Women May Have a Safer Commute (SFBC)
- With High Absenteeism, BART Tussles With Unions Over Work Rules in New Contract (SF Examiner)
- KRON’s Stanley Roberts Weighs in on the Proposal to End Free Disabled Placard Parking
- DMV Computer Glitch Lets Parking Placard Abusers Skip Out on Tickets (SF Examiner)
- Driver Crashes Into House in Outer Mission and Flees; Police Find Unoccupied Car (CBS)
- Board of Supervisors Approves Deal for Parking-Lot-to-Park Under Central Freeway (Uptown Almanac)
- SF Weekly Harps on APTA’s List of “Travel Like a Local” Transit Tips for Tourists
- Survey: CA Drivers Talking on Cell Phones Less, But Texting More (Mercury News)
- Driver Killed on Freeway in Livermore by Rod Flying Through Windshield (CoCo Times)
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