Today’s Headlines
More headlines at Streetsblog Capitol Hill
By
Andrew Boone
8:58 AM PST on December 5, 2013
- Supes Hold Hearing on Funding the Bike Strategy and the State of SF Bike Projects (SFBG, SF Exam)
- Bay Area Bike Share Now Has 80,000 Trips and 3,200 Annual Members (SFGate, Cyclelicious)
- Ed Reiskin Gets Contract Extension for Another Five Years as Head of the SFMTA (SFGate)
- BART Riders Hospitalized in Brake Incident in Tunnel (SFGate, Exam); Riders Stranded in Orinda (KTVU)
- SamTrans ECR Bus Ridership Up 3 Percent Compared to Former 390/391 Routes (Peninsula Transpo)
- San Jose Bicycle Rider Killed by Driver ID’d as Anthony Garcia, High School Student (Mercury, SFGate)
- Man Killed by Hit-Run Driver on I-80 in Richmond Was Single Father Nathaniel Robinson (KTVU, CoCo)
- Pedestrian Killed on El Camino Real in San Mateo ID’d as Scott Van Dyke, 58 (SF Exam)
- Ten-Year-Old Boy Hospitalized After Being Struck by Driver in Antioch (CoCo Times)
More headlines at Streetsblog Capitol Hill
Andrew Boone covers the Livable Streets Movements for Streetsblog in San Mateo and Santa Clara counties. Andrew's claim to fame is once having bicycled more than 12,000 miles of smiles in one year. nauboone@gmail.com
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