Today’s Headlines
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8:54 AM PDT on July 24, 2014
- Piece of Metal Falls Off Overhead Muni Wires, Hits Person at Third and Mission (SFGate)
- Beer Truck Stuck on Hill Crest at California and Jones Last Week (SF Weekly)
- More on Sup. Wiener’s Population-Based Muni Funding Ballot Measure (SFBG, SF Appeal)
- Flywheel Taxi App Now Offers Pre-Booked Rides to the Airport (SF Examiner, SFGate)
- SF Public Press Explains How it Raised $31,000 in a Kickstarter Campaign for Bike Delivery
- New SoMa West Skate Park Neighbors Bugged by Late-Night Noise, Urination (M Local, KTVU, SFGate)
- Opening Bathrooms Still Not an Option for Upgrades at Powell BART Station (SF Weekly)
- Mountain View Council Expected to Approve Google Agreement for Free Electric Public Shuttles (Merc)
- 17-Year-Old Driver Seriously Injures 32-Year-Old Man on El Camino Real in Atherton (KTVU)
- People Behaving Badly: Walnut Creek Drivers Ignore Pedestrians’ Right-of-Way in Crosswalks
- CA Assemblymember Gatto’s “Yellow Alert” Bill Could Help Catch Hit-and-Run Drivers (NBC)
- “Human” App Tracks Users’ Trips by All Modes of Transportation (GJEL)
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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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