Today’s Headlines
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11:34 AM PDT on September 4, 2015
- Get Ready for Another BART Transbay Tube Closure This Weekend (KQED, SFist, CBS, SFBay, IBA)
- SFMTA Files Legal Challenge Against Lyft Line and UberPOOL; Transit Advocates Defend Them (Exam)
- SFPD Arrests Hit-and-Run Driver Who Hit Man in Portola, Severing His Leg (SF Appeal, SFist)
- Some Merchants Still Fight Parklets: Reveille Coffee’s Proposal on 18th in the Castro (BAR)
- Injuries for Older Cyclists Rise Nationally With Ridership; SFBC: Build Protected Bike Lanes (SFGate)
- More Coverage of the 5-Fulton Upgrades Approved on McAllister (Hoodline, SF Appeal)
- Next Version of Clipper Card Could Be Managed Differently, Used on More Systems (Green Caltrain)
- Caltrain Starts Installing Anti-Suicide Fences (KRON), Works to Fund Electrification (Daily Journal)
- Menlo Park Mulls El Camino Real Redesign Options With Protected Bike Lanes (Almanac)
- VTA Says It’s Ready to Take On 49ers Traffic With Transit Service Lessons From Last Season (NBC)
- Caltrans Tests $79M “SMART” Signs on Highway 80 in Berkeley, Drivers Ignore Them (SFGate, ABC)
- Governor Brown Proposes $65 Annual Fee for Drivers to Fund Highways (Mercury News, KQED)
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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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