Today’s Headlines
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8:55 AM PDT on October 20, 2014
- Hit-and-Run Driver Hospitalizes Woman, 50, and Man, 80, at Turk and Mason (CBS)
- Red Light-Runner in Last Week’s Car Crash at Octavia and Oak Had Stolen Car for Burglary (Hoodline)
- Chronicle Op-Eds on Muni-Funding Prop B: For and Against
- Matier & Ross: Prop A Will Help “Put Driving Last;” Quentin Kopp: Fund the Muni TEP? “What’s That?”
- Survey: 14 Percent of Riders Say Muni is “Excellent,” 50 Percent Say It’s “Good” (SFBay)
- Scenes From Yesterday’s Bustling Sunday Streets on Valencia, the Last of the Year (Mission Local 1, 2)
- It Really is Unusual That the SEI Union is Backing Republican James Fang for BART Board (SFGate)
- Bay Bridge Repair Plates Cause Drivers to Slow to a Crawl; Caltrans Removes Them (SFGate, KTVU)
- San Mateo County Transportation Authority Wants Input on Five-Year Strategic Plan (SF Examiner)
- SMART Board Plans to Buy More Rail Cars After Service Begins (Marin IJ)
- Atherton City Council Takes Step Towards Studying Road Diet on El Camino Real (Almanac)
- LA Joins SF in Banning MonkeyParking (CBS)
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