Transit and infrastructure:
Less driving forces gas prices down -- Shocked by prices that reached $4.11 per gallon nationwide and $4.61 in California, drivers stopped buying as much fuel. That cut the demand for gasoline's raw material, crude oil. Crude prices dropped as a result, taking gasoline prices with them. SF Chronicle 7/29/08
Steel net preferred for halting bridge jumpers -- According to an unscientific online poll commissioned by the Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District to gauge public reaction to five design options for a suicide barrier, almost 75 percent of the 1,600 respondents are opposed to any being built at all. But of the design options, the net seems to be the most preferred. SF Chronicle 7/29/08
*BART bigwig blasts Muni’s big dig -- A $1.3 billion, four-stop Central Subway would connect Little Hollywood and Visitacion Valley with Union Square and Chinatown by 2016. To lay tracks for it, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency must dig underneath Powell Street station to within six feet of it. Construction is slated to begin in two years. BART board member and longtime Central Subway opponent Tom Radulovich said the draft environmental impact report released last year did not adequately address the problems inherent with displacing groundwater during construction. He said digging underneath the Powell Street station could cause damage to the BART stop and possibly cause it to sink or collapse. Examiner 7/29/08
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