Today’s Headlines
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9:00 AM PDT on August 13, 2013
- Drunk Driver Destroys Valencia Parklet, Hydrant; Nearly Runs Over Homeless Man (Examiner, MM)
- More Coverage of the Planned Bay Area Bike Share Launch From Bryan Goebel (KQED)
- SFMTA Board Committee to Consider Tour Bus Ban at Alamo Square (SocketSite)
- Stanley Roberts Captures Some of the Traffic Dysfunction at Outside Lands Last Weekend
- Planned Dogpatch Development to Include New “Decompression” Plaza (SocketSite)
- Cyclelicious Uses Streetmix to Mock Up Vision for a More Sustainable El Camino Real
- BART Labor Negotiations to Continue (SFGate), Chronicle Columnist: Workers Make a Good Living
- Labor Day Bay Bridge Opening Not Off the Table: CHP Planning to Staff Overtime Shifts (CoCo Times)
- More on Oakland’s Latham Square Plaza Set to Open on Telegraph Friday (SF Chronicle, Mercury News)
- SF-to-LA in 30 Min? Tesla’s Elon Musk Unveils Details on “Hyperloop” Vision (CBS, KRON, NYT, WaPo)
- Fed Transportation Board Says CEQA Doesn’t Apply to California HSR Project (CoCo, SacBee)
- Drunk Party Bus Driver Arrested After Killing Passenger in Crash on Highway 280 (CoCo Times, 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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