Today’s Headlines
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8:55 AM PDT on July 23, 2014
- So That’s What the Embarcadero BART Station Looks Like Under All That Grime (KQED)
- People Behaving Badly: BART Police Crack Down on People Lying Down in Powell Station
- More on the Flash Mob Dance on Temporarily Car-Free Lombard Street (SFist)
- Better Than a Parking Lot: Skaters Love the New SoMa West Skate Park (SFBG)
- DeSoto Cab Manager Considers Converting Taxis to “Ride-Share”-Like Services (Exam)
- New “SpoonRocket” Service Drives Around With Meals, Uses Algorithm to Deliver on Demand (ABC)
- Five-Year-Old Hayward Boy Who Was Hit by Minivan Driver Dies (SFGate, KTVU)
- Alameda Driver Previously Arrested for Motorcycle Wheelies Kills Passenger in DUI Car Crash (KTVU)
- Berkeley Apartment Building Developer Wants to Go From Two Floors of Parking to Four (SocketSite)
- South SF’s Downtown Plan Aims to “Provide Connectivity Without Favoring One Form of Transit” (Exam)
- 68-Year-Old Sunnyvale Woman Hospitalized by Driver Crossing El Camino Real (Mercury News)
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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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