Today’s Headlines
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8:58 AM PDT on August 30, 2013
- Bike-Share Launch Coverage From SFGate, CBS, KTVU (1, 2), KQED, SFist, 7×7
- Scenes From Bike-Share Launch in San Jose (Cyclelicious), Palo Alto (PA Online)
- More on SFPD’s Finding That Trucker Was at Fault (ABC. Exam), Chief Suhr’s Apology (SF Appeal)
- Bridgemageddon a No-Show Once Again (SFGate, 1, 2,CBS, Mercury, CoCo, SacBee, KQED, KTVU)
- BART Picks Up the Slack With Ridership Boom (CBS, KTVU)
- What’s the Backup Plan for Emergency Responders Who Come From the East Bay? Also BART (CBS)
- On Wednesday, Drivers Were Cutting in Line to Beat the Impending Bridge Closure (Ppl Behaving Badly)
- Woman Killed by Caltrain in Palo Alto (CBS)
- More on Menlo Park Council’s Vote to Keep Red-Light Cameras (SF Examiner)
We’ll have light local coverage next week — Happy Labor Day weekend.
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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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