Today’s Headlines
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8:55 AM PDT on September 18, 2014
- Advocate Op-Ed: Vote Yes on Prop B for Population-Based Transpo Funding Increases (SF Examiner)
- Another Transit Advocate Op-Ed: Prop L Proponents Want More Socialist Subsidized Parking (Westside)
- SFMTA Board Approves $3.5M Contract for Central Subway Turnaround Loop in Mission Bay (Examiner)
- SFPD Releases Sketch of Driver Who Shot Pedestrian at Broderick and Golden Gate (SFist, SFGate)
- Taxi Drivers Sign Up to Unionize to Gain Health Benefits, Combat “Ride-Share” Apps (SF Examiner)
- Elementary School Bus Chronically Late Due to Car Traffic; Pickup Times Moved Earlier (SF Examiner)
- VTA Says it Won’t Slow Trains to Allow Cars to Leave Levi’s Stadium More Quickly (Cyclelicious)
- Mercury News Tests New 3-Foot Bike Passing Law on the Road With Silicon Valley Bike Advocates
- Use Parking Lots for Housing? Google Employees Have Already Done That (BBC, Biz Times)
- SMART Loses $20M Federal Grant for Extension to Larkspur (Press Democrat)
- 11-Year-Old Iliyah Porter Killed in Solo SUV Crash on Highway 280 in Burlingame (KTVU)
- Mother of Teen Killed by Freight Train Raises Track Safety Awareness in Emeryville (SFGate)
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Stan Parkford is a graduate of the Urban Studies and Planning Department at SF State University.
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