Today’s Headlines
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8:58 AM PDT on August 7, 2013
- AC Transit Strike Called Off After Unions, Management Reach Agreement (NBC, CBS, SFGate, Merc)
- Gov’s Board to Hear Facts on BART Dispute (SF Exam), and it Probably Won’t Solve Anything (NBC)
- Labor Professor: Banning Transit Strikes Didn’t Work in New York City (SF Chronicle)
- As if Urban Planning is New, Libertarian Group Sues Against Plan Bay Area (SFGate, Business Times)
- Video: Former Mayor Art Agnos Compares 8 Washington to the Embarcadero Freeway (SFGate)
- No Stats to Blame Texting Pedestrians, but That Won’t Stop Stanley Roberts From Grabbing Ratings
- Meanwhile, SF Weekly Wonders if There Are Any Stats to Blame Drunk Pedestrians for Crashes in SF
- Cyclelicious Hunts Bike-Share Stations in San Jose, Plus: a Look at the Man in Charge
- Latest Version of the CA Driver’s Handbook Devotes More Ink to Bicycling (Cyclelicious)
- Listen in on KQED Forum‘s Discussion on the CPUC’s Attempts to Regulate Ride-Share Services
- Marinwood to Celebrate Measures to Curb Freeway Drivers Cutting Through Neighborhood (Marin IJ)
- Oakland Driver Gets Manslaughter Charges for Killing Passenger While Fleeing Police (SFGate)
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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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