Today’s Headlines
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9:14 AM PDT on August 17, 2015
- Alemany Maze Claims Another: Pedestrian Killed By Driver on Highway 101 Connector Ramp (CBS)
- 75-Year-Old Driver Hits 70-Year-Old Man at Ninth and Mission Streets (Hoodline, SF Appeal)
- Driving Declines in Bay Area More Than Any Other Metro Area in U.S. (ABC)
- Small Business Commission Worried About Impacts of Transportation Sustainability Fee (SF Examiner)
- SFMTA Presents Findings of Four-Year Waterfront Transportation Study (Hoodline)
- SFDPW Presents Streetscape Revamp Concepts for Fern Street Alley Off of Polk Street (Hoodline)
- SFBC on Avalos’ Stop Sign Ordinance: “We Need to Modernize Our Outdated Traffic Laws” (KQED)
- Stanley Roberts Catches Scofflaw Drivers Passing Stopped Cable Cars, Confronts Insulting Driver
- The Fight That Took the Central Freeway Down in Hayes Valley (Hoodline)
- BART Riders Notice Cleaner Stations (Examiner); BART to Create Plan for Art in Stations (ABC)
- Bay Area State Legislators Propose Bills to Fund Transit With Cap-and-Trade, Diesel Tax (Daily Journal)
- Oil-Funded Group Fights CA Bill Mandating Cuts in Gas Consumption (SF Chronicle – Scroll)
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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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