Today’s Headlines
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8:58 AM PDT on September 17, 2013
- Is 30 Percent of Traffic Really Circling for Parking? SF Examiner Reporter Questions the Stats
- SPUR’s Gabe Metcalf: Bay Area Needs to Find Local Sources to Fund Transportation Needs (SFGate)
- Mona Caron’s Wiggle Utility Box Painting Found; SFMTA Explains (Haighteration, Uptown Almanac)
- SFMTA Board to Consider Taxi Dispatch Performance Standards (SF Examiner)
- Muni Bus Driver Makes Sudden Stop to Avoid U-Turning Car Driver, Injuring Four Passengers (CBS)
- Muni Diaries Readers Alarmed by TEP Proposal to Cut 3-Jackson, 12-Folsom for Service Trade-off
- BART Negotiations Finally Get to the Money After Focusing on Safety Issues (KRON)
- You Shouldn’t Be Able to Take Out Two Bike-Share Bikes With One Key Fob, But You Can (Cyclelicious)
- EBBC’s Tweed Ride Brings Some Old-Fashioned Charm to the Streets of Oakland (Oakland North)
- In “Google Land,” Rainbow Bikes With Baskets and Drivers Using Cell Phones (People Behaving Badly)
- Walnut Creek Considers Demand-Based Parking Pricing to Get Drivers Into Garages (KTVU, NBC)
- More CA Bike-Related Legislation Updates From Cyclelicious
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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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