Today’s Headlines
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8:55 AM PDT on June 26, 2015
- Poll: Most Bay Area Voters Won’t Hike Driving Fees, But Might Pay Tax for New BART Tube (SFGate)
- Transit Activist: City Hall Shouldn’t Let Private Transpo Services Reduce Urgency for Better Muni (Chron)
- Calle 24’s Strategy to “Prevent Another Valencia” (Gentrification) Includes “Protecting Parking” (UA)
- Car-Free 1050 Valencia Condos Allowed to Resume Construction, But Neighbors Keep Fighting (SS)
- SF to Pay $11M to Woman Hit By Muni Train at 19th and Junipero Serra in 2013 (SFGate)
- Transbay Transit Center Starting to Take Shape in SoMa (ABC)
- The Case for More Bike Space on Caltrain (SMDJ); CAHSR Planning Will Affect Caltrain Car Design (GC)
- Bolts on New Bay Bridge East Span Have More “Ominous Cracks” That (SFGate)
- BART Stopped Between Lafayette and Concord After Tree Knocks Power Line On to Tracks (NBC, ABC)
- 18-Year-Old San Leandro Driver Turns Self in After Killing Woman and Fleeing (CBS)
- Google’s Natively-Produced Self-Driving Cars Are Roaming the Streets of Mountain View (CBS)
- San Jose to Launch “CalleSJ” Open Streets Program This Fall (Inside SJ)
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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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