Dick Spotswood: Sausalito council handles passionate Bridgeway meeting well

Saturday’s special Sausalito City Council meeting was a reminder that local government still works at a time when our nation sees many of its once-hallowed institutions collapsing. The issue was whether the most iconic stretch of Sausalito’s signature thoroughfare, Bridgeway, in an attempt to make the street safer for cyclists and pedestrians, be reconfigured.

Between Princess Street near the Ferry Terminal and where Bridgeway ends and traffic heads toward the Golden Gate, the street has a 10-foot- wide paved median.