Today’s Headlines
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8:55 AM PDT on August 12, 2014
- Threat of Golden Gate Ferry Strike Looms as Buses Already Short on Drivers (CBS)
- Uber’s “Surge Pricing” Sends Rideshare Fares to $450 Per Ride After Outside Lands (CBS)
- SFMTA Parking Control Officer’s Vehicle Towed From Bus Stop at 24th and Valencia (Pic via Reddit)
- Taxi Driver Filmed Driving in Townsend Bike Lane to Be Cited by SFMTA (@SFBike)
- Man Says Robin Williams Once Helped Fix His Bike After it Broke Down in Front of His House (SFGate)
- SF Bicycle Coalition Highlights Bicycle-Friendly Alexander Book Company on Second Street
- More on the Two Motorcyclists Killed in Collision After Fleeing Gunshots in Bayview (SFGate)
- BART Wants Public Input on What Changes Are Needed at 16th Street Station Plaza (Mission Local)
- Coalition on Homelessness: BART’s Sitting Crackdown is Not About Emergency Safety (SF Examiner)
- Five Hospitalized, Including Pedestrian, After Two-Car Crash in East Oakland (CBS, KTVU)
- Downtown Berkeley Installing its First Permeable Paving on Allston Way (Berkeleyside)
- Man Struck, Killed by Caltrain in Burlingame ID’d as 23-Year-Old San Jose Resident (CoCo Times)
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