Today’s Headlines
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By
Andrew Boone
9:03 AM PDT on August 1, 2013
- Transit Agencies’ Plans to Alleviate a Second BART Strike (KTVU, SF Business Times, CBS)
- Latest on BART Negotiations (Merc), BART Spending Big Bucks on PR (SF Weekly)
- Law Prohibiting Transit Strikes Would Face Big Hurdles in CA (CoCo Times, SFGate)
- Poll: BART Riders Support Tax Increase for Improved Service (SF Examiner)
- Raised Bike Lanes and Fewer Muni Stops on Market? Imagine the Chaos (Beyond Chron)
- You Can Now Send Pictures of Your Stolen Bike to @SFPDBikeTheft (KALW)
- How New Bay Bridge Costs Rose Since 1997 (CoCo), Permanent Bolt Fix in the Works (CoCo, KTVU)
- 5,000 Drivers Per Month Haven’t Been Billed for Golden Gate Bridge Toll Due to Glitch (ABC)
- Bay Area Drive-Alone-To-Work Rate Dropped From 69 Percent to 56 Percent Over Ten Years (SFGate)
- Road Diet With Bike Lanes Coming to The Alameda in Berkeley (Berkeleyside)
- Bill Would Add Seats on CA Transportation Commission With “Sustainability” Focus (TransForm)
- Road-Raging Driver Arrested for Hospitalizing Bicyclist, Fleeing (Press Democrat, Mercury News)
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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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