Friday’s Headlines

Vigil for another child killed by bad street design; BART adjusts its schedule to much consternation; More

By Melanie Curry

8:51 AM PDT on September 8, 2023

Photo: Wikimedia Commons

Vigil held for child killed when a driver opened a door without looking (Oaklandside)
Riverside Transit Agency offers free rides every Friday (Patch)
BART changes its schedules (Mercury News)
- and is running shorter trains (and they are packed again) (SF Standard)
Meet the SolTrans bus drivers who stuck around (The Reporter)
Getting congestion pricing right is key (Curbed)
Fun stuff about the Oakland Bay Bridge (The Bay Link)

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Melanie Curry

@StreetsblogCal

Streetsblog California editor Melanie Curry has been thinking about transportation, and how to improve conditions for bicyclists, ever since commuting to school by bike long before bike lanes were a thing. She was Managing Editor at the East Bay Express, editor of Access Magazine for the University of California Transportation Center, and earned her Masters in City Planning from UC Berkeley.

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