Today’s Headlines
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9:13 AM PDT on May 18, 2015
- SF Drivers Always Seem to Think Car Congestion Is Worsening, Whether or Not It is (Chronicle)
- More on the Mayor’s Congestion Plan (ABC, SFMTA), Bay Bridge Contraflow Bus Lane (KTVU, CBS)
- Google’s $6.8M Donation for Free Muni for Youth is Mayor Lee’s Biggest “Behested” Payment (Chronicle)
- Tearing Down the End of Highway 280 Would Open Land for 10,000 Housing Units (SF Chronicle)
- SF Examiner Reviews Some Popular Apps for Muni Arrival Times
- Hoodline Profiles Critical Mass Founder and “Found SF” Historian Chris Carlsson, Who Faces Eviction
- Dandelion Chocolate in the Mission Completes Successful Parklet Kickstarter Campaign (U. Almanac)
- More on the BART Rail Defect That Could Have Caused the Recent Shutdown in SF (SFGate)
- 11th Person This Year Killed By Caltrain in Another Suspected Suicide in Atherton (CoCo, SFGate, CBS)
- Caltrain Considers Train Cars With Two Set of Doors for Lower Platforms and CAHSR Platforms (GC)
- Saratoga, Cupertino Plan to Sue Caltrans Over Proposed High-Occupancy Toll Lane on Hwy 85 (NBC)
- Stolen Car Driver Flees Wrong Way Down Highway 4, Crashes and Escapes on Foot in Berkeley (ABC)
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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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