Today’s Headlines

• Bay Bridge Expected to Reopen This Morning (SF Appeal, SF Gate, ABC7)
• Bridge Closure “Strained the Region’s Transportation System” (Merc)
• VTA Deficit Jumps to $98 Million, Four Times Worse Than Projected (Merc)
• Peninsula HSR Supporters Form New Partnership to Counter Opposition (SJ Business Times, CHSRB)
• AP Story Focuses Mostly on the Critics of SF’s Extended Parking Meter Plan
• KCBS Radio Talks to Parking Guru Donald Shoup on Half-Hour In Depth Program (Listen Here)
• “How Effective are Muni’s Double Parker Busting Cameras?” (SF Appeal)
• LA Times: “Bikes and Cars: Can We Share the Road?”
• As Bike-Share Booms, Reports of Vélib’s Troubles Surface Again (NYT)
• Meeting Examines Whether SJ Bicyclists Should Be Allowed to Ride With Leashed Dogs (Merc)  
• Proposal to Charge Bicyclists, Pedestrians to Cross GG Bridge in 2014 Still on Table (Marin IJ, SF Gate)
• CHP “Task Force” Arrests 57 Bicyclists in Sac for Allegedly Riding Under the Influence (Sac Bee)
• Chronic DUI Driver Who Careened into Parking Lot and Stumbled into Two Cops Sentenced (SF Gate)

More headlines over at Streetsblog Capitol Hill