"PA council wants safer non-car access to bay... Palo Alto Issues, posted by Hulkamania, a resident of the Duveneck/St. Francis neighborhood, on Nov 14, 2006 at 12:15 pm
...with no immediate projects in mind."
No kidding!! My wife wrote a letter to the City about fifteen years ago asking for the Oregon bridge to be improved to allow families with kids in trailers access to the Baylands. From the article it looks like it'll take another fifteen years before anything is done.