Today’s Headlines
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8:56 AM PDT on July 15, 2014
- Muni Operators Ratify Contract (SFGate); Willie Brown: Negotiations Were Racially Split (SFGate)
- SFTRU: Urge Supervisors to Put Wiener’s Charter Amendment to Increase Muni Funding on Ballot
- More on the New Muni Metro Trains, Up for Contract Vote at SFMTA Board Today (Exam, Muni Diaries)
- Giants Owner Larry Baer Once Rode Every Muni Line in the Same Day (SFGate)
- Three Charged With Forging Medical Claims to Get Disabled Parking Placards in SF (SFGate, KTVU)
- More on Billionaire Sean Parker’s Donation to the “Restore Transportation Balance” Initiative (SFist)
- KQED‘s Bryan Goebel on Sup. Mar’s Requested Study of Lower Speed Limits
- City to Hold Final Community Meeting on Making Marina Bike/Ped Path Car-Free (SFBC)
- Protected Bike Lanes Still Need Slower Traffic to Be Safe, as Mountain View Case Shows (GJEL)
- Residents on San Carlos Street Protest Proposed Daytime Ban on Parking to Move Cars (SM Daily)
- SPUR: Silicon Valley Needs to Be Designed for People, Not Cars
- BART Board Member Criticizes BART for Not Advertising Board Seat Openings (CBS)
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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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