Today’s Headlines
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8:55 AM PDT on September 8, 2014
- SFMTA Starts Ticketing Drivers Blocking the Box in SoMa, But It’s Just a “Pilot” (SFBay)
- People Behaving Badly: SFPD Cracks Down on the “Fulton 500 Speedway” in the Richmond
- Chinatown Central Subway Station to Bring Much-Needed Open Space on Top (SF Examiner)
- BART Board Member Mallett: Second Transbay Tube Should Run Down Market Street (SFGate)
- Chronicle Spotlights Veteran Mayoral Chief of Staff Steve Kawa, “The Enforcer” (See: Sunday Meters)
- SFBG: City Hall Needs to “Get to Work” on Vision Zero, Geary BRT, Development on the Westside
- Bulb-Outs Aren’t Slowing SFFD’s Response Times — There’s an Ambulance Shortage (SFGate)
- SF Weekly Bike Columnist: SF Climbed a Spot in Bicycling Magazine’s Ranking, But It’s “Nonsense”
- 24th Street BART Escalator to Be Out of Service for 150 Days (Mission Local)
- Historic Geneva Streetcar Barn Could Become Arts and Culture Center, if Funded (SFGate)
- Some GG Bridge Toll Booths Removed (SFGate); Deer Stroll Down Lanes to Marin (KTVU, CBS)
- Stolen Car Driver Hits AC Transit Bus, Sending it Into Richmond Home (NBC, ABC)
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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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