Bryan Goebel

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Mayor Newsom, Wife Made Investment in Oil Rig Involved in Gulf Disaster (Matier & Ross) Kerry, Lieberman, Obama Buckle on Climate Bill (Politico, NYT) No Decision Yet on Whether Transpo Emissions Will Be Capped (Transpo Nation) Half of Recent Muni Service Cuts to Be Rolled Back in September (SF Gate) Bay Citizen: “Union Prez Picks … Continued

Mercury News Laments All the Tolls and Fees Drivers are Being “Hit” With Guardian UK: “Bus Cuts Drive Americans Back to Cars” SamTrans Paratransit Fares Set to Rise This Week (Merc)  West Portal Muni Metro Crash Proving Costly for the City (SF Examiner)  Two Injured in Crash Involving the 31-Balboa in the Richmond District (BCN … Continued

Car-free Fun in the Streets of Oakland as the City Celebrates Oaklavia (SF Gate, Oakland Local) Matier & Ross: “Big BART Fare Rollback Gets Whittled Down”   BART Board Member Lynette Sweet Wants Tasers Removed from Police Force (ABC7) More Troubling SFPD Bias Against Bicyclists (BIKE NOPA) Complaints that Some Drivers Unfairly Targeted in Placard Abuse … Continued

Pedaling up Sutter Street toward Leavenworth from his dentist's office during the height of the Wednesday evening commute, Dan Nunes is riding in the transit-only lane for his bike trip home, despite the new sharrows recently painted in the center lane to his left. There, drivers often zoom by at alarming speeds, breaking the 25 mile an hour speed limit, narrowly avoiding crashes, and treating the three-lane arterial like a highway, especially as they make the descent down the hill on Sutter just past Leavenworth.

FTA Approves Environmental Report for BART to San Jose, Clears Way for Funding (Merc) Berkeley Off the Route for East Bay BRT; San Leandro, Oakland Stay On (Coco Times)  State Senator Lowenthal Seeks Leadership Changes at Ca. High-Speed Rail Authority (LAT) Some Upper Terrace Residents Complain About Bus Noise from the 37-Corbett (SF Examiner) Vision … Continued

Sacramento Judge Tosses Lawsuit Against High-Speed Rail Project (SF Business Times) Palo Alto’s “Planning and Citizen Engagement Process” on High-Speed Rail is a Failure (CHSRB) Seimens AG Sees U.S. as Prime Market for HSR and Renewable Energy (Industry Week) Mother Jones: “Memo to Urban Environmentalists: Don’t Fight Development, Embrace It” Congestion Tolls to Begin This … Continued

Oil Companies Succeed Getting Measure to Rollback AB32 on Ballot (SF Gate, SJ Business Journal) More Coverage of Yesterday’s Bike Injunction Hearing From SFBG, Bay Citizen, BCN via SF Appeal Arco Station Owner Gets Physical with Protestors Who Say He’s Guilty of Assault (The Snitch)  In D.C., Ray LaHood Takes Inaugural Ride in New Green … Continued

Without playing his hand, a San Francisco Superior Court judge today gave the attorneys involved in Rob Anderson's lawsuit against San Francisco's Bike Plan three weeks to draft orders for how he should proceed in the case, and any objections to those orders that might arise.

Bike Plan Opponent Rob Anderson Promises an Appeal if Injunction is Lifted (The Snitch) And More Previews of Today’s Bike Injunction Hearing from SF Examiner, SF Gate C.W. Nevius: “Taking on Muni Puts Elsbernd at the Wheel”  Bicyclist Killed in Crash in Tilden Park (SF Gate) Lodi Cyclist Killed in Crash Identified as Ryan Lucas … Continued