Today’s Headlines
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8:55 AM PDT on April 20, 2015
- Taxi Driver Hits, Kills Woman at Larkin and Pine Streets (SF Examiner)
- Person Killed By Driver While Walking Up Highway 101 Offramp at Alemany Boulevard (SFBay)
- Driver Injures Man on Castro Street Between 17th and 18th Streets (Hoodline)
- 4/20 Car Closure Returns on Westbound Kezar Drive; Sup. Breed: Don’t Drive There (Examiner, SFist)
- BART Proposes Designs for Street Escalator Canopies at Civic Center, Powell Stations (SFBay)
- More on Leap, the “Non-Transit” Company That Wants to “Inspire” Muni (Al Jazeera, Overhead Wire)
- Bike Theft Caught on Video in the Mission (Mission Local)
- KPFA Radio Host Wesley Burton Killed in Hit-and-Run Car Crash in Oakland (ABC, SFBay)
- The Alamedan Wants Input On Alameda’s Efforts to Make Safe Streets Safer
- Palo Alto Man, 21, Killed By Trucker While Walking on Side of Highway 101 (Palo Alto Online)
- Concord Driver Hits Stopped Police Cruiser (SFBay); Redwood City Driver Crashes Into Home (SMDJ)
- Stanley Roberts Learns About the Laws Around Driving With Marijuana
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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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