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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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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