The Embarcadero is San Francisco's iconic waterfront street. It's also a three-mile conflict zone that pits maritime, transportation, and leisure uses against each other.
Spending $4.8 billion on electrifying HSR between Bakersfield and Merced will do more to reduce pollution and take cars off the road than moving funds to rail upgrades in L.A.
For the commissioners it wasn't a question of whether to put bus-only lanes on the bridge and its approaches--it was how to get it done. However, staff seemed to see things differently.