Today’s Headlines
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8:55 AM PST on February 13, 2014
- 280 Stub Makes Congress for the New Urbanism’s List of Ten “Freeways Without Futures” (SFGate)
- Pedestrian Killed by Driver at Van Ness and Pacific Was a 57-Year-Old Man (SF Appeal)
- SFMTA Cut Staff Overtime by 13 Percent in Last Fiscal Year (SFBay)
- “SAFE Bikes” Registry Launches Today to Help Return Stolen Bikes to Owners (SF Examiner)
- Biking in SF as Seen by a Recent Chicago Transplant Who’s Been in Two Crashes (SF Magazine)
- Stanley Roberts Catches Drivers and Pedestrians Behaving Badly on Van Ness
- Two SFFD Officials Subpoenaed in Firefighter’s DUI Crash With Motorcyclist (SFGate)
- Uber to Require Drivers to Undergo County and Federal Background Checks (SF Examiner, SFGate)
- Facebook Launches Ferry Trial (SFGate), Google to Meet With Transpo Officials on Its Program (Exam)
- Surprise, Surprise: Marin Drivers Boo GG Bridge Toll Hike (Marin IJ); Eight Facts on the Matter (KQED)
- Palo Alto Commission Approves 2-Mile Bicycle Boulevard on Matadero, Margarita Avenues (Mercury)
- CA Assembly Bill Introduced to Target Cell Phone Use While Driving (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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