Officials from the San Francisco 49ers said the team is committed to a site in Santa Clara, despite a request by the South Bay city to extend negotiations on a stadium by seven months.
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Three days after a train rammed into another train near AT&T Park, Muni officials are still searching for an explanation about the collision that injured 16 people, including 12 who were sent to local hospitals.
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Muni riders may soon have a whole new outlook.Double-decker buses, cultural landmarks and transportation mainstays on the streets of London, could make their way to San Francisco — although it may take a few years for them to arrive.
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Local businesses in the revitalized North of Panhandle neighborhood are fuming about a Muni proposal to strip parking spaces on a stretch of Divisadero Street to create a transit-only lane during the evening commute.Traffic congestion on the corridor slows the 24-Divisadero to a snaillike 2.8 mph, according to Judson True, spokesman for the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency.
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A confused elderly woman drove her car into the West Portal Muni tunnel Wednesday and managed to traverse the entire 1.8-mile underground route to Market Street — the second case in two months of amotorist mistaking the railway tracks for a roadway.
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You can give your two cents about the Golden Gate Bridge toll increases that could raise cash fares to $7 on the iconic span at a public forum Wednesday.A $1 toll increase and a separate variable-pricing toll could combine with the current $5 cash toll to bring the final price tocross the bridge to $7.Neither toll would be implemented before September.
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The dean of City College of San Francisco’s School of Health and Physical Education is the recipient of The California Wellness Foundation’s Champion of Health Professions Diversity Award. She has worked at City College for 39 years. Why are community colleges so important? Because the door of education is shut to many, many students for a number of different circumstances. Education is the one thing that can level the playing field, and community college means educational access to all.
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With an enrollment hovering at just 50 students, San Francisco’s Bridgemont High School provided one of the feel-good sports stories of the year in 2007 when it defied heavy odds to capture the Central Coast Section Division V boys’ basketball championship.
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In 2005, San Francisco health officials launched a new program to dole out health and safety scores to The City’s restaurants. Three years later, the program offers diners little more than vague insight into the potential health risks they face when going out to eat.
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A bevy of activities in The City will be accompanied by sunny skies and temperatures that will reach the mid-70s this weekend.
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Police are investigating the death of a San Francisco man who was fatally shot by two suspects in a fleeing car early Friday morning.
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With an enrollment hovering at just 50 students, San Francisco’s Bridgemont High School provided one of the feel-good sports stories of the year in 2007 when it defied heavy odds to capture the Central Coast Section Division V boys’ basketball championship.
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After a 65 percent showing for February’s presidential primary, voter turnout was expected to dip significantly for Tuesday’s election, according to Department of Elections Director John Arntz. He said Tuesday’s election appeared to be on par with the November 2007 polls, which drew 35 percent of The City’s 430,259 registered voters. Roughly 70,000 of San Francisco’s 166,894 absentee ballots had been collected by Tuesday afternoon, according to Arntz.
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The 2008 UC Berkeley graduate and Jackie Robinson Foundation scholar, who enrolled in college two weeks after her mother was killed, will be at AT&T Park today to present a scholarship sponsored by the Giants in conjunction with the JRF. Benjamin-Arrington co-founded Akanke, a program that pairs female black students at Cal with teenagers in a Richmond housing project.
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With $58 million in federal funds on the way, Muni has plans to ease the pain of red-light weary drivers and bus riders idling along San Francisco’s major thoroughfares, starting with Gough, Polk and Franklin streets.Muni officials say they will be able to ease congestion through its traffic-management system — SFgo — byremotely changing traffic signals to respond to the volume of traffic on the roadway and give public-transit vehicles priority at intersections.
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