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“The opening of SANDAG’s Coastal Rail Trail in Cardiff is a great moment for our city,” said Catherine Blakespear, mayor of Encinitas. “This is a monumental regional project that aligns with our vision for mobility and access. I look forward to it being a convenient way for people to get around Encinitas.”Good fences make good neighbors!
The group will meet after the SANDAG grand opening ceremony at the corner of Chesterfield Drive at San Elijo Avenue in Cardiff for check-in at the city of Encinitas booth.
I've lived in Encinitas for a very long time and I appreciated Cardiff's Beach Town look and character. While I like the bike path, a part of Cardiff's character will be forever lost and I'm very sad about that. I guess we can't stop from being like OC and other beach cities that lost their true beach image.
ReplyDeleteHow do we cross the tracks - I'm soooo bummed!
ReplyDeletePut the blame on the bluff destruction where it belongs - this asinine Mayor and Council. Two-thirds of the Cardiff westerly bluffs have been demolished and cemented above the railroad. The CCC approved this destruction along with the Mayor and Council.
ReplyDeleteThe Mayor and Council were unanimously opposed to the east-side alignment and Blakespear showed up at the CCC with a long presentation on why the trail should run along 101 instead of the tracks. 12:34am is just plain wrong.
DeleteNo, you've got it wrong, 2:16. Your beloved mayor and council opposed the east side location only after the rail trail people raised holy hell and your mayor and council saw the political light and flipped.
DeleteIsn't it just like a Blakespear acolyte to try rewriting history just as she does. Happy happy!
Was Muir at the CCC meeting?
DeleteWhat was his presentation like?
Mayor Blakespear also said she wanted the bicycle sidewalk (trail) on the east side of the tracks so she could ride her bike.
ReplyDeleteShe also said so her "kids" could ride their bikes there, too. As with everything else, it's all about what she and her bff attorney friend want.
DeleteThe new trail is good and already heavily used. Muir should try it.
ReplyDeleteDesign sucks. Way to invasive with concrete.
The fence sucks and is not worth the trail. It dramatically shuts down mobility.
Its time for a whole new City Council and Mayor.
The fence isn’t up to council.
ReplyDeleteIt’s on SANDAG property, and they have stated their intent to fence the entire rail line with or without a rail trail.
Blame our lawsuit happy society. The fence is a fig leaf defense against law suits stemming from suicides.
SANDAG took over NCTD, but NCTD still functions as an agency. NCTD stated that the fencing would come in 5 to 10 years. Without the dam sidewalk trail and double tracking fencing was years down the road. Put the blame on the Mayor and Council. In 2014 the Council refused to make a city EIR on what the environmental damage to the city would be with all of these projects. Instead, they let SANDAG perform the EIR.
DeleteCity officials volunteered to have all of these "projects" under an "early action" plan that switched money from projects in the south and east part of San Diego County. The blame is on Encinitas city officials.
Sandag did not take over NCTD. SANDAG is the organization that is contracted to do work for NCTD in and around the rail corridor.
DeleteNCTD operates the mass public transit and is a toothless agency (except for fencing off the railroad tracks).
DeleteDepending on the Wikipedia -
The San Diego Association of Governments (abbreviated SANDAG) is an association of local San Diego County governments. It is the metropolitan planning organization for the County, with policy makers consisting of mayors, councilmembers, and County Supervisors, and also has capital planning and fare setting powers for the county's transit systems, the San Diego Metropolitan Transit System and North County Transit District, some of which was assumed by the Metropolitan Transit Development Board (became MTS in 1986). SANDAG also owns all railway tracks in San Diego County.
On January 1, 2003, Senate Bill 1703 was enacted, transferring responsibility for future transit planning, programming, development, and construction to the San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG), San Diego’s regional planning agency. In 2005, the State Legislature changed NSDCTDB’s name to the North County Transit District (NCTD).
blame our do-nothing City Council, Mayor, and City Manager. For years, no fence. With this City Council, they let SANDAG run unchecked.
DeleteThis City Council legacies:
Welcome the homeless.
Sell out to developers and begin the process to convert Encinitas to HB.
Let SANDAG run unchecked.
I hate it.
Pathetic.
Blakespear happy to be a bigwig on sandag, she's helping it run unchecked - and proud of it!!!
DeleteJody Hubbard says that she'll make sure we have openings along the fence, to cross the railroad. She stated that's why we openings along the fence. Someone said those opening are for maintenance (haha). Not so, say Jody. You guys need to do your homework.
ReplyDeleteJody Hubbard isn't the bright bulb on the Council.
DeleteIt's illegal to cross the tracks, always has been.
DeleteHubbard is demonstrating a new low in issue awareness.
DeleteNothing some bolt cutters can't fix. Predictable waste of a shitload of money though.
ReplyDeleteStart the campaign. It was stupid for them to try and fence well established pedestrian pathways.
DeleteGreat plan. Maybe they won’t replace it with a cinderblock wall.
DeleteDon’t trespass.
ReplyDeleteProblem solved.
Where is the parking for this new cement sidewalk trail? In the neighborhoods?
ReplyDeletehint: it’s a bike trail.
DeleteDo pedestrians share the trail with the bikes?
DeleteParking? Where Ace Hardware is closing shop.
DeleteParking for the new businesses near D St./101 are in the neighborhoods. Great planning.
DeleteIs this a trick question? There is parking all along the trail
Deleteyes.
ReplyDeleteNCTD has been within SANDAG since Arnold was governor. NCTD does not contract SANDAG to do work in and around the rail corridor.
ReplyDeleteSandag built the underpass by Swami's.
DeleteSANDAG doesn't build anything. The agency provides part of the funding and contracts with construction companies to do the work.
DeleteThe Swami's undercrossing:
"The project will cost roughly $5.5 million. It will be paid for with $1.2 million from Encinitas, $3 million from the San Diego Association of Governments, and $1.25 million in state grants."
All of sudden, these people live a lot further away from the ocean. They can look, but don't touch. Such a shame.
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