Today’s Headlines
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8:55 AM PDT on October 7, 2014
- Luis Ayala, 29, Arrested for DUI Hit-and-Run That Hospitalized Man at Valencia and Duboce (KTVU)
- Trucker Hits Fire Hydrant on New Montgomery St, Wasting Thousands of Gallons of Water (SF Weekly)
- Mayor-Funded BeyondChron Continues to Re-Hash Arguments Against Sup. Wiener’s Prop B
- Castro Street Fair Shows Off New Rainbow Crosswalks, Widened Sidewalks (GG Xpress)
- Potrero Hill Neighbors Complain About Crew Trucks Taking Up Parking to Film HBO’s “Looking” (SFGate)
- New Parklet Constructed at VinoRosso on Cortland and Anderson in Bernal Heights (Bernalwood)
- “SFBARF” Group Formed to Rally for More Housing Development in SF (SF Examiner)
- Facebook’s Shuttle Drivers Seek to Unionize (KQED, Biz Times)
- VTA Proposes Scaling Back BART San Jose Extension to Get Federal Funding (Green Caltrain)
- BART to Start Charging at East Bay Parking Lots (Weekly); SFGate Profiles BART Board Challengers
- SPUR to Open Oakland Office in January to Help City Grow With “Inclusion” (Biz Times)
- Citylab Explains Why 12-Foot-Wide Traffic Lanes Are Killing Us
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Stan Parkford is a graduate of the Urban Studies and Planning Department at SF State University.
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