Today’s Headlines
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By
Andrew Boone
9:01 AM PDT on August 6, 2013
- Two Women Injured by Pole Knocked Over by Truck Driver on South Van Ness (Mission Local)
- Ed Reiskin on Muni: “I Didn’t Come Here to Preside Over the Status Quo” (SF Chronicle)
- AC Transit Workers Give Notice of Strike Over Health, Safety Issues (CoCo, SFGate, CBS)
- BART Strike Unlikely for 60 Days, Hope Lies With Jerry Brown (CoCo Times, SFGate, SF Chronicle)
- Two BART Workers Describe Worsening Work Conditions Over the Years (SFBG)
- Professor Jason Henderson’s Ideas for Improving Transportation in the Bay Area (KCBS)
- Human Transit‘s Jarrett Walker: Stop Designing Transit to Stay Out of the Way of Cars (SF Chronicle)
- Castro Revamp Breezes Through Hearing, Expected in Time for 2014 Street Fair (BAR)
- KALW Looks at the Transportation Challenges Posed by the Planned Warriors Arena Development
- How San Mateo County Will Benefit From Finally Getting a Bike/Ped Coordinator (SF Examiner)
- Big Rig Truck Fire Causes Traffic Jam on Bay Bridge (SF Examiner, SFGate, CoCo Times, ABC)
- FlightCar Expands at SFO Despite Lawsuit Over Skirted Rental Fees and Regulations (SF Weekly)
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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