Today’s Headlines
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8:58 AM PDT on October 9, 2013
- More on the Hearing on Anti-Bike Bias at SFPD (SFBG), SFBC Director: Chief Suhr Must Bring Reforms
- Supes Pass Resolution Calling on SFPD to Curb Bike Theft, Launching Bike Registry (XPress)
- Gov. Brown Signs Bill Exempting Bike Plans From CEQA Review (Cyclelicious)
- Monique Porsandeh, Nearly Killed by Driver, Returns to SF to Call for Safer Streets (KTVU, SF Weekly)
- Driver Mysteriously Flips Car at Scott and Duboce (Haighteration)
- Due to “Sunk Costs,” SF Weekly Suggests Cheaper Cars Would Curb Driving (VMT Tax, Anyone?)
- With Just a Few Days Left, Transit Agencies, Businesses Brace for Second BART Strike (CBS, KTVU)
- SF Law Student Charged With Assault With Deadly Weapon for Driving Into Man in Oakland (Appeal)
- Pedestrians Apparently Invisible to Drivers in San Carlos (People Behaving Badly)
- Vauncelia Thornz, 52, Killed by Hit-and-Run Driver in Redwood City (SM Daily Journal)
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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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