Today’s Headlines
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8:55 AM PST on January 29, 2015
- Polk Street Redesign Hearing Tomorrow (Examiner); Chronicle‘s Nevius: It Can’t Satisfy Everyone
- SF State Gets Larger, More Wheelchair-Accessible Shuttles to Daly City BART (SF Examiner)
- Sup. Scott Wiener Elected to Chair SF County Transportation Authority (Hoodline – Scroll)
- MTC Launches “Vital Signs” Website Showing Bay Area’s Progress on Better Transportation (ABC)
- GJEL Dispels Misconceptions About Adding Third Lane, Bike/Ped Path on Richmond-San Rafael Bridge
- Uber’s Joint Report With MADD Shows Service Reduces Drunk Driving (Biz Times)
- Family of SJ Woman Killed by Racing Drivers Outbursts in Court: “Somebody Was Murdered” (CBS)
- One of Two Hit-and-Run Drivers Who Killed Woman in San Jose Arrested (SFBay)
- Drunk Driver Who Crashed into SamTrans Bus in South SF Sentenced to Year of Jail (Examiner)
- South Bay’s Hwy 85 Could Be Widened for Express Lanes (Merc); 101 Could Get Toll Lanes (NBC)
- Menlo Park, Atherton Still Considering Litigation Against Caltrain Electrification (Almanac)
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Stan Parkford is a graduate of the Urban Studies and Planning Department at SF State University.
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