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Originally Posted by mello
Lets be realistic how in the hell is Coastal North County ever going to become a place where transit will even become a remotely close alternative to car travel?
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By investing tens of millions more in adding more Class 1 bike lanes, converting one of the general purpose lanes or the left-hand emergency shoulder to HOV/Carpool/Transit, adding more hours/service to the bus routes and sprinter, and making the sprinter more cohesive with the Coaster in terms of schedule.
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Originally Posted by mello
They are anti anything up there, density will never occur. San Diego would literally have to Quadruple or more the percentage of people who work downtown for this to ever happen, how many new office jobs have been created downtown in the last 15 years?
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Density is occurring in San Marcos and areas along the Sprinter. Last year when I took the Sprinter I saw 3-4 different multi-family housing projects under construction. Check this one out:
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Originally Posted by mello
The way this metro area is laid out makes it extremely hard to properly implement transit. You have canyons, hills, escarpments, lagoons, and military bases chopping everything up. The only hope for the vast majority of SD County is self driving cars. I say widen the 5 and focus on transit in the areas where density is feasible like Mission Valley and La Mesa through Mission Hills and down through the South Bay along the 5.
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It's true, topography can pose a challenge to implementing transit, but that's why you focus on areas that are already close to transit and densify in areas like Mission Valley, National City, or Barrio Logan. And speaking of National City, look at these rowhomes in our downtown that are almost complete. They're for sale guys, and National City is a real up-and-coming community, especially with all the recent investments in our Downtown. (PS, the renderings of the surroundings are WAY off as this is a very urban, built-out neighborhood)