Today’s Headlines
More headlines at Streetsblog Capitol Hill
By
Andrew Boone
9:47 AM PDT on June 4, 2013
- SFBC Calls on Supporters to Urge Supervisor Chiu, SFMTA Board Today to Support a Safer Polk Street
- Supes Committee Passes Wiener’s Legislation to Streamline Ped Safety Projects (SF Examiner, ABC)
- More on the Latest Report on Muni’s Unreliability and Poor Maintenance (SF Gate, CBS)
- TransForm: Latest BART Meltdown Shows Need to Improve Existing System Before Expanding
- BART Workers Plead With Board to Address Violence on the Job (YouTube)
- SF Sues Car-Share Startup FlightCar for Not Paying Car Rental Company Fees (CoCo Times)
- SFMTA Board to Consider Banning RVs From Overnight Parking in Some Neighborhoods (SF Examiner)
- Bicyclist Killed on I-80 in Berkeley ID’d as 24-Year-Old Michael Arthur of Massachusetts (KTVU)
- North Oakland Driver Hospitalized After Crashing Into House on Market Street (Mercury News)
- Drunk, Unlicensed Driver Who Ran From Police Arrested in San Rafael (Marin IJ)
- Palo Alto Civic Hackers Create Mobile Parking Survey and Visualization App (Peninsula Transpo)
More headlines at Streetsblog Capitol Hill
Andrew Boone covers the Livable Streets Movements for Streetsblog in San Mateo and Santa Clara counties. Andrew's claim to fame is once having bicycled more than 12,000 miles of smiles in one year. nauboone@gmail.com
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