Today’s Headlines
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8:55 AM PDT on June 16, 2014
- SFFD, Safe Streets Advocates Come to Compromise Over Street Widths in Candlestick Point (Exam)
- DUI Driver Veers Off Fifth Street Off-Ramp, Runs Over and Kills Sleeping Homeless Man (ABC)
- Driver Distracted by GPS Crashes Head-On into Muni Bus on Laguna Honda, Injuring Four (ABC)
- Driver Who Hit People, Muni Bus in Tenderloin and Fled on Foot Pleads Not Guilty (SFGate)
- SFGate Blog Points Out Bay Area “Speed Traps” for Drivers
- First Central Subway Drill Emerges From Excavation in North Beach (SF Examiner)
- Muni Labor Contract Deadline Extended Until June 30 as Negotiations Continue (SF Examiner)
- West Portal Station Briefly Closed Friday Due to Smoking Muni Train (CBS)
- San Jose Officials Urge SAP Arena to Reduce Car Traffic but Give it Veto Power Over Parking (PTA)
- Crashing Into Starbucks Apparently Not a Crime (Alamedan)
- Contra Costa’s Out-of-Touch Transpo Director: $1.3B Hwy Widening “Attracts Businesses” (KTVU)
- CA High-Speed Rail Funding Still Falls Far Short, Even With Cap-and-Trade (Business Times)
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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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