New Balboa Park parking policy still needlessly divides us

New Balboa Park parking policy still needlessly divides us

Organ Pavilion Parking Lot in Balboa Park on Jan. 24, 2026. (Photo by Thomas Murphy/Times of San Diego) Heading south on Interstate 5, somewhere around the Route 54 intersection, there’s a view where you can see all the way into Tijuana. At night it looks like a sea of lights stretching to the southern horizon. It doesn’t look like two different worlds. It looks like one region. But if you keep driving, you eventually reach a line that changes w…