Today’s Headlines
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9:09 AM PDT on June 8, 2015
- Donald Pinkerton-DeVito, 23, Killed in Bike Crash With SFPD Driver Next to McLaren Park (SFGate, CBS)
- In Three Police Chases in the Past Month, Suspects Have Killed or Injured People on the Street (Chron)
- Report: Warriors Arena Traffic Would Be Manageable With Transit Upgrades (Exam 1, 2, SFGate, NBC)
- Matier and Ross Focus on Cost of Sup. Jane Kim, SFMTA’s Trip to Copenhagen (SF Chronicle)
- Castro Merchant: “Are People Walking Down the Street Really an Accurate Cross Section?” (Hoodline)
- Man Driving Stolen Car Crashes on Bay Bridge On-Ramp, Dies (SFGate, CBS)
- BART to Shut Down Transbay Service for Maintenance on Two Weekends in August (SF Chronicle)
- 12th Fatality on Caltrain on Tracks Occurs in Atherton (CBS, Almanac)
- Caltrain Recommendations for New Electric Trains: No Bathrooms, Same Bike Capacity (GC, SocketSite)
- “Civic Hackathon” in San Jose Aimed at Helping VTA Improve South Bay Transportation (KQED)
- Google Publishes Information on Self-Driving Car Crashes on Website (Business Times)
- Hayward Woman Killed By School Bus Driver (SFGate); Emeryville Driver Hits Building, Dies (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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