Today’s Headlines
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8:55 AM PDT on April 25, 2014
- SFPD Issued 126 Tickets in Ped Safety Crackdown on Van Ness, Folsom Wednesday (SF Examiner)
- Meet the “Free the Streets” Coalition (Plus: Shots of the Green Polk Contra-Flow Bike Lane) (KTVU)
- Woman Assaulted, Pepper Sprayed by Men Who Stole Her Bike (KTVU)
- Muni 30X Bus Engine Catches Fire at Howard and Main, No Passengers on Board (SF Examiner)
- An Interview With SF’s New Citywide Planning Director, Gil Kelley (SF Business Times)
- On Average, SF’s Lower Transpo Spending More Than Makes Up for High Housing Costs (Bold Italic)
- Oakland Airport Connector Poised to Cost BART $10K Per Passenger (SFGate, TransForm, Transbay)
- GJEL Looks at Oakland’s Telegraph Avenue Proposals for Parking-Protected Bike Lanes
- Golden Gate Transit Bringing Wi-Fi Back to Its Buses (Marin IJ)
- Santa Clara County May Fast Track Transpo Tax on Ballot After Polls Show Strong Promise (Mercury)
- Cyclelicious Looks at Where Strava-Using Cyclists Shop Using “Global Heat Map”
- KQED Looks at What California’s New “Active Transportation Program” Means for Bike/Ped Funding
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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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