Today’s Headlines
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8:59 AM PDT on August 16, 2013
- Chris Bucchere Sentenced; DA Gascón: Message to All Street Users (ABC, CBS, KTVU, SFGate)
- After Amelie Le Moullac’s Death, SFBG Pleads for Sharing the Road, CBS Clarifies Right-of Way Laws
- Truck Sends Taxi Flying Into Walgreens at Geary and Taylor, Hospitalizing Three (CBS)
- Bay Bridge Span to Open September 3, Preceded by Five-Day Bridge Closure (SFGate, SF Appeal)
- “If People Knew the Real Cost”: Willie Brown’s Shameless Deception on the Central Subway (SF Weekly)
- Market Street Bike Counter Misses Commuters Who Aren’t in the Bike Lane (SF Examiner)
- Urban Life Signs Draws Up Some Protected Bike Lane Plans for Polk Street on Streetmix
- Uber Won’t Pay for Driver’s Crash (SF Weekly); Bay Area Teens Turn to Twitter for Ride-Shares (WNYC)
- Pleasanton Driver, 18, Charged With Murder of Bicyclist After Bragging on Twitter (SFGate, Patch)
- Stanley Roberts Confronts Driver Who Almost Killed Him in Castro Valley Crosswalk
- Cyclelicious Has Updates on CA Bike Legislation, Ponders the True Cost of Operating Highways
- Senator Steinberg’s CEQA Reform Bill Clears Assembly Committee (LAT)
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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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