Today’s Headlines
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9:04 AM PDT on August 21, 2015
- SFPD’s Captain Sanford Bonds With Bike Advocates on a Ride Through Park District (ABC)
- Report: For Every $1 SF Invests in Muni, City Economy Gets $2 to $3 in Return (SF Examiner)
- Muni Looks to Ditch Tear-Off Paper Transfers in Favor of Real-Time Printing Fareboxes (SFBay)
- SFMTA’s Progress on Sustainable Transportation: Now an Interactive Webpage (SF Appeal)
- More on Upper Market’s Safety Upgrades (SFBay), Approval of Second Street Redesign (Hoodline)
- Planning Dept Wants Market & Franklin Development to Have Less Parking, Better Public Space (Socket)
- City Hall Enforces All Laws! Except When Drivers Illegally Park Under Its Nose (GJEL)
- Driver Fleeing CHP Crashes Into Fire Hydrant on Market, Runs and Slips on Water (CBS)
- Water Emergency Transportation Authority Answers Calls for More Ferry Service (SF Business Times)
- BART Answers Calls for New Elevator Floors (SFBay)
- Caltrans to Upgrade Bay Bridge Metering Lights to Actually Respond to Traffic Conditions (Mercury News)
- In San Francisco, Some Bike Racks Are Also Swings (Hoodline)
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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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