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KIDS: A county engineering team will decide in the coming months whether to recommend installing new stop signs or traffic lights on heavily trafficked school routes, like Mesa Road. David Briggs

Last Tuesday afternoon, West Marin School teacher Chris Eckert was heading home from work on his bicycle when a Prius exiting Green Bridge Gas & Auto at the intersection of Shoreline Highway and Mesa Road struck him. The driver stopped and called an ambulance, but Mr. Eckert declined a ride; instead, he went to the hospital the next day. Though more or less uninjured, he said he has been having headaches, and he believes he…