Today’s Headlines
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8:59 AM PDT on August 2, 2013
- BART Unions Issue 72-Hour Notice of Strike (ABC, KTVU, SFGate, Mercury, Mission Local, KQED)
- Support Seen on Both Sides (CoCo Times, CBS); Should BART Cut Free Family Passes? (CoCo)
- Mercury News Wants to Join Your BART-Less Commute; Disabled Commuters Will Be Hit Hard (KQED)
- MTC Gives Out Gift Cards to Encourage Drivers to Casually Carpool During Strike (CBS)
- Can CPUC Regulations Get Rideshare Drivers to Provide Service Equitably? (SF Weekly, KQED)
- The Vision of Polk Street’s Hidebound Merchants: Keep it More Like Detroit Than Paris (SFGate)
- A Reminder That Polk is on the List of San Francisco’s Most Important Bike Routes (7×7)
- KRON‘s Stanley Roberts Talks With Victims of Bike Theft in San Francisco
- East Bay BRT Clears Hurdles at Oakland City Council (TransForm)
- Vibrant Bay Area: Carbon Shouldn’t Stop Transit-Oriented Developments; KALW Profiles a Few of Them
- SamTrans’ Consolidated “Route ECR” Service to Run On Weekdays Starting August 12 (Almanac)
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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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