Today’s Headlines
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9:04 AM PDT on May 8, 2015
- One Man’s Vision: Develop Housing on SF’s Roadways, Leaving Narrow Pedestrianized Streets (Vox)
- SF Chronicle’s John King Provides a Photo Tour of SF’s Parklets (SFGate)
- Hole Opens Up on Haight Street at Masonic Avenue (Hoodline)
- Caltrain Ridership at a New All-Time High; 71 Percent Increase Since 2010 (SM Daily Journal)
- Another BART Train Smokes at 24th (ABC); Uber Prices Surged During Yesterday’s Rail Break (SFist)
- BART Rail Fixed Permanently, Broken Piece Sent to Lab (Examiner, KTVU); System Needs $4.6B (CBS)
- Weekend Closures: BART Between Fruitvale and Colisuem, San Mateo Bridge (SFGate)
- Santa Clara Water District Postpones Bike Path Closure for Bike to Work Day (Cyclelicious)
- Palo Alto Celebrates Revamped California Avenue With Road Diet, Bike Lanes, Wider Sidewalks (PAO)
- Mini Cooper Found on Rocks of Yerba Buena Island Was Reported Stolen From Berkeley (CBS)
- Alameda Planners Note the Difficulty of Estimating Seconds of Delay for Drivers in 20 Years (Alamedan)
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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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