The driver of the Toyota was driving erratically westbound, according to witnesses. She crossed over the median into oncoming traffic in front of Town & Country Plaza.
Monday, September 10, 2012
Crash on Encinitas Boulevard causes gridlock
Encinitas Boulevard eastbound was closed and traffic was backed up on I-5 following a multiple-car pileup at FedEx around 4:30 p.m. this afternoon.
The driver of the Toyota was driving erratically westbound, according to witnesses. She crossed over the median into oncoming traffic in front of Town & Country Plaza.
The driver of the Toyota was driving erratically westbound, according to witnesses. She crossed over the median into oncoming traffic in front of Town & Country Plaza.
Now imagine adding 20,000 new residents--or whatever the scheme is to this. How can packing more people into little appartment atop of stores improve this situation?
ReplyDeleteEveryone in this town needs to watch the movie 10 Billion which talks about overpopulation. The idea of a social experiment to make Encinitas more walkable will only make it more crowded if they 'work with developers.'
On the other hand, we live in a desirable place. People want to move here and the people who live here don't want to leave, so rents and property values will continue to increase. The free market lets that happen. The free market also lets property owners and developers build higher density structures to accomodate higher populations. You can't just suddenly say we're full, that's it, no more. Everyone here before you wanted that. So from a philosophical perspective you have no right to stop people from coming here even if they are douchebags, and from an economic perspective you have a right to develop for any douchebag who wants to come here, even if you're a douchebag yourself, and yet there isn't a way to prepare for inevitable influx of all these fucking douchebags. Either it fits into some kind of expected order that the community can mostly agree on or it happens on a case by case basis with no regard for the overall direction things move. I think it can be done tastefully and without destroying the character here (eg: do you think 20,000 more people can or need to fit on these roads? How about building some proper public transit and bike paths instead of trying to make every single person own and drive a car?), but I also think it's likely that the competing self interests (NIMBYs, politicians, industries) will ultimately make it more haphazard. Regardless, things are going to change and the population is going to go up. If you disapprove of that you may as well leave town. There are plenty of mellower places.
ReplyDeletePeople have a right to expect that zoning laws will be honored in their neighborhoods.
DeleteThere's nothing "free market" about getting your buddies on the council to change zoning laws for your financial benefit.
Hey Anon 12:39, thank you for demonstrating how to do things "tastefully," with your elevated selection of lexical choices.
ReplyDeleteI really disagree with the argument that since some of us moved here in the past 30 years, that we have to let everyone else move here too. Every issue has scope and scale and every area has limits. I respectfully disagree with your point.
Anyone get killed?? NO?? Then push the cars out of the road and move the traffic. End of discussion.
ReplyDeleteOh and thanks for removing that stupid step of having to put in a number and some inane word. Now if the LB will get off their asses and open itself to real discussion.
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