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MTA Board Will Consider How to Spend $36 Million in State Funds (Examiner) Muni Surveillance Cameras Help Capture Assault Suspect (BCN via Appeal) AC Transit Service Cuts Go Into Effect Over Weekend (KCBS, SF Gate) Argument on AC Transit Bus Ends in Fatal Shooting (SF Gate) Golden Gate Transit to Face Service Cuts, Changes (KCBS) … Continued

BART Officer Involved in Oscar Grant Case Fired (Merc, CBS, CoCo Times, SF Gate) BART Director Wants To Preserve Convenience at Parking Lots (SF Gate) MTA Removes Traffic Cops from Market St., Occasional Spot Checks by PD (SF Gate) Muni Safety Chief Leaving for Post at Washington DC Transit Operator (SF Gate) Opposing Media Accounts … Continued

The city of Tucson has some nice-looking bicycle infrastructure. Now the City Council is looking at imposing bike registration fees, even though the system wouldn’t even pay for itself. (Photo: Steven Vance via Flickr) Two different methods of making bicycle riders pay for roads came over the feed on the Streetsblog Network over the last … Continued

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When House leaders agreed last week to ban earmarks to for-profit entities, tax and transportation projects got a notable exemption. But that doesn't mean Congress has no appetite to curb transport earmarks, as Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) showed in a letter sent this week to U.S. DOT chief Ray LaHood.

Yesterday morning, Megan Charlop was killed by a bus in the Bronx after apparently being doored and knocked into traffic by the driver of a parked car while riding her bike. Anyone who regularly rides a bicycle in New York City or or anywhere else knows that potentially fatal bus-bicycle interactions are common. Conflicts between buses and bikes are often created or exacerbated by double-parked cars or drivers who open their doors without looking, but there is also often a lack of clarity about how bus drivers and bicyclists should interact as they share the road. As a result, it can be scary and confusing to ride along bus routes.

LA Times Reports on Ca. High-Speed Rail Concerns; CAHSRB Criticizes the Coverage Peninsula Cities Anxious for HSR Report on San Mateo County (San Mateo Daily Journal) More Coverage of Friday’s MTA Board Meeting from SF Gate, ABC7, Fog City Journal Chronicle Story on “Latest Attempt to Reform Muni” (SF Gate) SFgo Signs Finally Removed on … Continued

<a href="http://www.coveritlive.com/mobile.php/option=com_mobile/task=viewaltcast/altcast_code=3c7899e72d" >SFMTA Board Meeting</a>

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