Today’s Headlines

• Today and tomorrow you can watch the lowering of a section of the old Oakland Bay Bridge live from your desk (YouTube)
• New Expo line is a rare sign of progress in U.S. (LA Times)
  • perhaps because some see only a “costly bet” (Wall Street Journal)
• Golden Gate Fields donates land to complete a section of the San Francisco Bay Trail (East Bay Times)
• A new dense, walkable housing development in San Diego has too much parking (Voice of San Diego)
• Counties blame legislature for “inaction” on transportation funding (but are they willing to pay more taxes?): San Luis Obispo (Atascadero Times)  Yuba (Appeal Democrat)
• Engineers should not be designing streets (Strong Towns)
• Data mash: correlations between parking and retail density, employment, housing (Street Smart)
• Australia is trying to quash bicycling: increasing cycling fines and citations, while motorist violations of safe passing distance not so much (Sydney Morning Herald)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF