Today’s Headlines
Hit-and-Run Driver Hospitalizes 59-Year-Old Woman Walking in Bayview (SF Weekly, SF Appeal) SF Examiner Makes a Strong Case for Re-Orienting San Francisco’s Streets Around People, Not Cars More on the Watered-Down Plan to Preserve Parking on Polk Street (SF Examiner) Supervisor Eric Mar to Hold Committee Hearing on Bike Theft Today (Cyclelicious) City Officials Cut Ribbon on New Brannan Street Wharf … Continued
By
Andrew Boone
9:00 AM PDT on July 18, 2013
- Hit-and-Run Driver Hospitalizes 59-Year-Old Woman Walking in Bayview (SF Weekly, SF Appeal)
- SF Examiner Makes a Strong Case for Re-Orienting San Francisco’s Streets Around People, Not Cars
- More on the Watered-Down Plan to Preserve Parking on Polk Street (SF Examiner)
- Supervisor Eric Mar to Hold Committee Hearing on Bike Theft Today (Cyclelicious)
- City Officials Cut Ribbon on New Brannan Street Wharf (KTVU)
- More on the CEQA Appeal Reform Legislation Approved by Supes (SF Chronicle, SF Business Times)
- Protesters Block Muni Trains at Church and Duboce Over Police Shooting (SFist)
- Bike/Ped Advocate Dr. Rajiv Bhatia Leaves SFDPH Under Mysterious Circumstances (SFBG)
- BART Isn’t Allowed to Have Trained Non-Union Operators Ready for a Strike (SFist, CBS, KTVU)
- Mercury News Prints Pro-Sprawl Screed on Plan Bay Area From Car-Hound Commentator Wendell Cox
- People Live Inside the 280 Freeway. You Read That Right. (People Behaving Badly)
- Free Parking Given as Token During Construction Costing Burlingame $5,340 Per Week (Daily Journal)
- Pedestrian Killed by Hit-and-Run Driver in Berkeley Was John Patrick Miller, 46 (CoCo Times)
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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