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19 May 2014 / SF News / Eve Batey

Monday Morning Roundup: BART's Escalator Woes


  • Family of mother and child killed in SF housing authority property is angry that they can't get answers behind fatal fire. [NBC Bay Area]

  • You guys, I'm scared! I agree with Willie Brown about something! But he's right, more movies should be shot in SF. [SF Chronicle]

  • The founder of MonkeyParking, that app where you can sell off public parking places that everybody's been making fun of, totally doesn't get why everybody's making fun of it. [Mashable]

  • Some public officials are skeptical about San Francisco's Entrepreneurship-in-Residence program, comparing it to "corporate welfare." [SF Examiner]

  • Transbay Transit Center costs keep rising, new expected price has exceeded $2 billion (yes, with a "b"). [Socketsite]

  • If you're not psyched about Purple Rain's 30th anniversary screening at the Balboa on June 8, I can't even with you. [Richmond SF blog]

  • Prep Cook, a startup which apparently prepared food "to-order" (isn't that just called a restaurant?) launched on Wednesday, suspended operations three days later and now hopes "to realign in under a month." These are strange days we live in, friends. [SF Business Times]

  • The families of the track workers killed when a BART train struck them last October are now suing the transit agency. [AP/ABC7]

  • One of the two escalators at the 24th Street BART station won't be back in operation until the end of June. It's been out of service since April 4. [Mission Local]

  • Though there's a drought on, area residents are using more water, not less. [SF Examiner]

  • Here's one aspect of Polk Street that [Streetsblog SF] thinks should be replicated elsewhere. No, it's not that late night doughnut place. Unfortunately.
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