Today’s Headlines
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9:06 AM PDT on August 24, 2015
- Neighbors to Protest Tree Replacement for Van Ness Bus Rapid Transit (SF Chronicle)
- Driver, Motorcyclist Crash at Polk and Ellis Streets (Hoodline)
- Activist Fran Taylor: Don’t Let Police Use Vision Zero Enforcement as an Excuse for Racist Harassment
- SF Bicycle Coalition Publishes Questionnaire Responses From Candidates in Mayoral, Supes Races
- More on Captain Sanford’s Ride With Bike Advocates (SF News)
- Man and His Mules, Roaming to Highlight Car Dominance, Barred From Crossing GG Bridge (SF Weekly)
- GG Bridge Board Takes Major Step to Build $76M Suicide Net (ABC, Marin IJ)
- SF Chronicle Columnist: Art at BART Stations Wouldn’t Improve Service and Would Only Get Dirty
- Breakdown Delays BART Near Glen Park Sunday (KTVU); Toy Grenade Closes North Berkeley Station
- Drunk Driver in Castro Valley Hits Cop, Breaking His Leg, After He Pulls Over Man on Bike (CBS)
- CA Senator’s Proposal to Hike Gas Tax, Car Registration Fees Faces Uphill Battle (SF Chronicle)
- CA Transit Agencies Blocked From Federal Grants Over Employee Pension Rules (Mercury News)
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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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