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Flooding remains a big problem:
Sounds like not so fast on Streetscape. The fun never stops with an inept (best spin you can put on it) city staff and asleep-at-the-wheel city council. The final three pages show the SANDAG letter to Wisneski, taking issue with the Streetscape plan: https://encinitas.granicus.com/MetaViewer.php?view_id=7&event_id=2031&meta_id=95760
Flooding remains a big problem:
So much for the promised increased parking:
Good to see that the flooding problem will be addressed. As for parking, too bad but overall it still works. Press on!!
ReplyDeleteThe city doesn't have the money to build streetscape. It will never be built.
ReplyDeleteJust add that deficit to the red inked pension fund.
DeleteMore bike lanes, we need more bike lanes, we don't have enough bike lanes!
ReplyDeleteMayor Blakespear and her family should be encouraged to ride the bike lanes along south El Camino Real in the 55 mph zone. Such a peaceful ride. She'll need more wine delivered to her.
ReplyDeleteMore roundabouts! One gets just a dizzy but it's healthier than a bag full of glue.
ReplyDeleteThank you sub 90 IQ folks for your work to make streetscape happen!
We should celebrate with some vintage Elmers...
"revealed the need for a large drainage channel on the east side of the rail line" Well, duh? SanDag can see this, why can't Staff. Oh that's right, they used the Hymettus Estates Hydrology report as their guideline.
ReplyDelete"If additional drainage improvements are not integrated into the project design, it would be expected that proposed improvements, which would include parking and the CRT, would be significantly impacted by flooding by even a modest storm." We've been waiting decades for this, so any day now.
"The CRT will need to be located to the west of the tracks north of the El Portal crossing" So lets see, Leucadia BLVD intersection. Vulcan Ave with new bike lanes, Track #1, Track#2, Coastal Rail Trail, Northbound 101, Southbound 101. Should take all morning to cross this Rubicon.
Don't worry, it'll only cost us between $30,000,000 to $40,000,000.
ReplyDeleteFrom tonight's agenda report:
ReplyDeleteRECOMMENDATION:
1. Direct to staff to redesign the east side of North Coast Highway 101 to locate all parking to be parallel on-street,
2. Direct staff to develop a draft Memorandum of Understanding with the San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG) to establish the parameters for designing and potentially constructing the Coastal Rail Trail (CRT) project in conjunction with the Streetscape Project;
3. Direct staff to evaluate options for improving drainage conditions within the project boundaries; and
4. Direct staff to evaluate and return to the City Council with the costs (design and construction) and schedule associated with the project redesign and drainage improvements.
omg, how many times are we going to pay "staff" to re-do work they screwed up the first time??? This is our money paying for crap work by undereducated employees. Our council praises what would be grounds for firing in the real world and act like OUR money grows on trees.
They can't fricken fix the drainage because they're too busy with photo ops and sending "newsletters" about weekend family trips and moving on to the next trophy project residents don't actually want. Shame on all 5.
Abolish SANDAG...
ReplyDeleteYeah that's it, abolish an agency that's actually providing some oversight and putting up the hand to our crazy council. Sounds like a plan if you don't want the interference. The rest of us are digging it.
DeleteWhen did the SANDAG board approve this letter?
ReplyDeleteIt's dated Feb 13, 2019.
DeleteKranz says there's no traffic problem that can't be solved with roundabouts.
ReplyDeleteMore roundabouts, we need more roundabouts, we don't have enough roundabouts!
Fewer and narrower car lanes, we have too many, too wide car lanes!
oh but didn't you hear, 2:16? drivers will "learn" to take the 5. Out of the mouths of idiots....
DeleteYes, check how well roundabouts are working in Europe! https://youtu.be/_MmeA67LocM
ReplyDeleteour stellar planning dept + paid-for-predetermined-answers consultants had to go to Australia to get the roundabout model to work for Streetscape. Caltrans says they'd never design what our Encinitas brain trust came up with.
ReplyDeletebit of a stretch to go halfway around the world to force the answer you want, just one more small detail tony doesn't want let out of the bag.