Today’s Headlines
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9:00 AM PDT on August 5, 2013
- BART Strike Postponed After Gov. Orders Cooling-Off Period (ABC, SF Exam, SFGate, BART Video)
- Hit-and-Run Driver Hospitalizes Man on the Embarcadero at Howard (SF Weekly, ABC)
- In Case You Missed it: The Market Street Bike Counter is Working Again (SF Appeal)
- Overhead Muni Wires on Market Were Off This Weekend Due to Sewer Cleaning (CBS)
- A Look at the Transit-Oriented Development Planned in Downtown SF (ABC)
- Sup. Wiener: Investing in the Rehab of Muni is Crucial to Accommodating Growth (SF Chronicle)
- 38-Geary Muni Bus Catches Fire at 48th Avenue (CBS)
- Peer-to-Peer Bike Rental App Spinlister is Back (SF Weekly)
- Lessons Learned From SF’s First Failed Parklet (SF Examiner)
- People Behaving Badly: Drivers Violating Carpool Lanes on the Bay Bridge
- Rods on New Bay Bridge Span Being Tested by Caltrans (CBS)
- San Leandro Driver Charged With Gross Vehicular Manslaughter in Fatal DUI Crash (KTVU)
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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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