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Originally Posted by JerellO
When will the trolley extend up to Hillcrest, Balboa Park and North Park Area?? The city hasn't built any new lines since like forever -_-" meanwhile in LA they have like 4 rail lines under construction and the city has new developments springing up literally like every week. We could learn a few things from them.
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When will the trolley extend up to Balboa Park/Hillcrest/North Park?
Not in our lifetimes, per SANDAG's long range plans.
SANDAG had this line in their long-range plans for awhile, then about 5 years ago they changed it from a trolley to a "street car" plan. Now, they've scrapped that and the only trolley lines in their plan covering the next 30-50 years are the extension of the blue line to UTC and a purple line that will go from the border to Kearny Mesa.
Since Prop A failed, who knows when and if the purple line will ever become reality (luckily the blue line is already funded).
Meanwhile, voters in LA passed their transportation tax increase, so San Diego will most likely continue to lag behind most other major cities in mass transit for quite literally the next 50 years.
One thing about SANDAG is that it's weighted towards suburban and rural areas of the county. SANDAG is comprised of representatives from Vista, El Cajon, Poway, Chula Vista, La Mesa, etc etc. and even though the city of San Diego gets two votes instead of one, we are still way outnumbered at this agency. City officials from all these other cities get to vote on the transit ocuring within the city of San Diego. This is why they do things like scrapping a mid city line which would be totally within the city limits in favor of this purple line which will go through several cities like Chula Vista, San Ysidro, etc and thus gets more votes and panders to more special interests on the SANDAG board.
One thing that desperately needs to be done is the reorganization of SANDAG so the CITY of San Diego is making our own decisions on these matters.