Today’s Headlines
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8:58 AM PST on January 6, 2014
- SFPD Launches Crackdown on Drivers and Pedestrians After String of Ped Crashes (ABC)
- Drivers Hit More Peds at Hyde and Bush (SFGate, CBS), California and 17th Ave. (SF Examiner)
- Motorcycle Rider Injures Elderly Pedestrian at Market and Sixth Streets (SF Appeal)
- Big Rig Driver Hits Historic Muni Streetcar at Embarcadero and Bay, Injuring Four (NBC, CBS)
- Isabel Huie, 84, Killed by Out-of-Control Elderly Driver in Chinatown, to be Honored (Examiner)
- Sup. Kim Calls for Scrutiny of Ride-Share Drivers’ Insurance Coverage After Fatal Crash (KTVU)
- J-Church Line Blocked for an Hour Due to Stalled Train (SF Appeal)
- Lombard Street Neighbors Complain About More Tourists on Foot, in Cars (SFGate)
- Revised BART Labor Contract Signed by One of Two Largest Unions (SFGate)
- Bay Area’s “Banner Year for Transportation Improvements” All for Car Infrastructure (CoCo Times)
- Gov. Brown Plans to Use Cap-and-Trade Revenue to Fund Much of CAHSR (SacBee)
- Top 2013 Complaints From Mercury Roadshow Readers: Full BART Parking Lots, San Jose Bike Lanes
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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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