I of course meant "from two-way to one-way" above.

For the District 4 candidates: Over a seven-year period from 1964-70, the City and Caltrans first converted Central Business District streets from one-way to two-way, then pounded the I-5 and Capital City Freeways through the heart of the district. Over the past forty-five years, have these projects helped or hurt the business climate and livability of the district? Does the City need to re-set its relationship with Caltrans?

Crime is down nearly everywhere. Key reasons include: less crack cocaine, more abortions, more people in prison. Police budgets and strategies are of secondary importance.

"Sport" is the way bike shop ass't manager Garcia describes bicycling in the last line of the article. As long as the bike industry conceives of its product in such a way, bicycling will never fulfill its potential as urban lifestyle transportation. In the context of urban bike theft, the comment was especially bizarre. It isn't $4,000 "sport" bikes being stolen, it's the bikes that enable people to get to work, school, shopping and social events.

Here, you link rising home prices with short-term consumption (as opposed to the creation of long-term wealth). The home equity-as-credit card mentality was a big part of what got us into trouble. "the loss of housing wealth... means that these consumers have less money in their pockets"