Today’s Headlines
Traffic Carnage Over the Holidays
8:51 AM PST on January 2, 2014
- Bay Area Bike Share Set to Begin Expansion Into New Neighborhoods (SFGate)
- KTVU Dredges Up the Terrible Idea of Bicycle Taxing, Licensing
- Dispatch From a SF-Amsterdam Transplant on How SF Could Become a Bike Mecca (SFBG)
- SF Weekly Bike Columnist Questions the Accuracy of the SFMTA’s Bike Counts
- SFpark’s Pilot Period Over, Sensors Off (Exam); Examiner: City Should Use Data to Improve Transport
- With a Growing Population, SF Examiner Looks at the Transit Challenges That Lie Ahead for SF
- BART Fares, Muni Passport Rates Go Up (SF Examiner)
- SamTrans to Study BRT Along El Camino Real From Daly City to Palo Alto (SF Examiner)
- AC Transit, Unions Reach Labor Agreement (NBC)
Traffic Carnage Over the Holidays
- In 2013, 20 Pedestrians Were Killed in SF, a Six-Year High (SF Examiner)
- New Year’s Eve: Ride-Share Driver Hits Family in Crosswalk at Polk and Ellis, Killing Girl, 6 (SFGate)
- Also on NYE: 87-Year-Old Man Killed by Pickup Driver in Crocker-Amazon (CBS, SFGate)
- Dec. 29: Pedestrian Killed by Driver Near Fourth Street On-Ramp in SoMa (ABC)
- Dec. 20: Recology Truck Driver Backs Over, Kills Elderly Man in Tenderloin (NBC, SFGate)
- Dec. 20: In Chinatown, Driver Hits Car, Power Pole, Two Peds, Killing Isabel Huie, 84 (SF Appeal)
- NYE: SUV Driver Hits and Injures Woman at Turk and Leavenworth, Flees (CBS)
- Dec. 30: Muni LRV Driver Hits and Injures Girl, 17, Fails to Stop at Third and Hollister (SF Appeal)
- Firefighter, Car Passenger Hospitalized in Fire Truck Crash at Fifth and Howard (ABC)
- Survivor of Horrific New Year’s Day 2013 Crash in the Mission Walking After Nine Surgeries (ABC)
- Gina Eunice Gets Four Years for DUI Crash That Killed Yuee Yao, 56, in Dec. 2012 (KTVU)
- San Jose Sees 21 Pedestrians, Five Bicycle Riders Killed in 2013, a Two-Decade High (Merc, NBC)
- Woman, 62, Killed on Bike by Trucker in West Oakland Was Susan Watson, Scientist (Mercury News)
- Menlo Park Driver, 90, Blames Twins, 6, for Getting Hit by His Car on the Sidewalk (Almanac)
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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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