Today’s Headlines
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11:15 AM PDT on June 18, 2015
- SFMTA Board Approves Removal of Over 30 Parking Spots for Daylighting in Hayes Valley (Hoodline)
- New Parklet Appears in Front of Swissnex at Montgomery and Jackson Streets (Curbed)
- Patxi’s Proposes Inner Sunset’s Second Parklet on Irving Street (Hoodline)
- Utility Overhaul Work Begins on Upper Haight Street (Hoodline)
- Three-Car Garage With One-Bedroom Apartment in Pacific Heights Goes Up for $3.7M (SocketSite)
- “Uber Has Basically Bought” the U.S. Mayors’ Conference in SF This Weekend (SF Weekly)
- Oakland Warriors Fans Do “Donuts,” Climb on Buses (PBB); BART Service to Adjust for Parade (SFBay)
- Menlo Park Drivers Use Dangerous Maneuvers to Shirk New Barriers at Caltrain Crossing (Almanac 1, 2)
- Menlo Park’s Top Crime is Driving With a Suspended License (Peninsula Press)
- San Mateo County Still Wants to Widen Highway 101, Though Local Officials Oppose Toll Lanes (SMDJ)
- Survey: More Than Two-Thirds of Santa Clara County Voters Support Transportation Sales Tax (Mercury)
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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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