Today’s Headlines
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By
Roger Rudick
8:18 AM PDT on August 17, 2020
- BART Tweets Airflow (SFGate)
- Police Debates Could Shape BART Board Elections (SFChron)
- Former BART Director James Fang Dies (SFChron, SFExaminer)
- Public Transit Cuts Felt Deepest by Low-Income Communities (NYTimes)
- Muni’s Contactless App (SFNews)
- COVID Shifts Transit Priorities (Bloomberg)
- Tenderloin Demands Return of Bus Lines (SFExaminer)
- $8 Million for Walk and Bike Projects (DailyJournal)
- More on ‘Monster in the Mission’ (SFChron)
- Problems with California’s Clean Energy Transition (MercNews)
- Commentary: Flee the City for Suburbia? (NYTimes)
- Commentary: Suburbs Can be More City Like (Crain’s)
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