Free Willy

... and no mask!

Priorities

 From the Inbox:

Source: https://www.sandag.org/uploads/projectid/projectid_604_28513.pdf

2021 SANDAG Regional Transportation Improvement Program

Figures are 2014 dollars.

Cardiff Coastal Rail Trail construction, Chesterfield to G Street: $6,885,000

Projected Coastal Rail Trail construction, G Street to Leucadia Boulevard: $4,763,000

Railroad grade separation at Leucadia Boulevard ranks 25 of 27 regional projects considered. Projected cost is $93 million. Trains per day: 51; traffic per day: 34,000.

People's vote to fill empty council seats

From the Inbox:

Carlsbad residents submitted a petition for an election instead of the Carlsbad council deciding on someone to replace one of the councilmembers.

Encinitas can do the same thing for any replacement on the Encinitas council.

Here is the Carlsbad agenda on the petition.

Click on agenda on the upper left to get the full agenda.

https://carlsbadca.swagit.com/play/11082019-614

Teachers' union sues to keep schools closed

Encinitas Advocate:

The San Dieguito Union High School District has been sued by its teachers’ union in an effort to block the district’s plans to reopen next month while cases of COVID-19 continue to escalate across the county.

In the court petition filed Friday, Dec. 18, the union says the district’s plan violates state rules because the state forbids schools from reopening if they did not reopen before the county fell into the most restrictive preventive stage, dubbed the purple tier. San Diego County has been in the purple tier since Nov. 10.

Possible murder near Moonlight Beach

Encinitas Advocate:

Sheriff’s homicide investigators were called to the scene of a suspicious death Monday night, Dec. 21, on a street near beachfront homes in Encinitas, a lieutenant said.

Just after 10:30 p.m., two people found an injured person “face down and covered in blood” near Neptune Avenue and Sylvia Street, San Diego sheriff’s Lt. William Amavisca said.

Deputies responded and were investigating the “suspicious incident,” according to Amavisca, who said the sheriff’s homicide unit was called to the scene around 11:45 p.m.

Another injury at Blakespear's bike obstacles

 Facebook:

I just found out that on Dec 10th one of the guys in my riding group went down hard riding north just before Chesterfield. Among other injuries he was knocked unconscious but remembers hitting a wheel stop after being pressured by a car merging into the right lane. This is the second guy in my group to have a crash in that area where cars have that short window to get into right turn lane. ... [I will check and see how he feels about sharing his name]. I think he broke his pelvis and possibly shoulder.

Ghetto bird circling Oggi's homeless encampment

Police helicopter right now saying something about a 20-year-old white male adult dark sweatshirt and blue jeans, missing person at risk, if you have information call 9-1-1.