Blakespear voted at a recent SANDAG meeting against excluding congestion pricing on local roads - another step in her mission to get us out of our cars. (Congestion pricing is a surcharge for using roads during peak use times.)
We already pay road taxes and now we'll pay even more for the crime of driving our local streets during peak hours: Encinitas Blvd., El Camino Real, Santa Fe Rd., Vulcan Ave., Hwy. 101, San Elijo Ave., Leucadia Blvd., Quail Gardens Dr., and more.
From the SANDAG minutes:
Action: Upon a motion by Supervisor Kristin Gaspar, the Board of Directors voted to limit using congestion pricing only for managed lanes and to exclude its use for local roads and general purpose lanes. Gaspar's motion failed.
Vice Chair Blakespear voted NO and congestion pricing on our local roads is on its way. Who voted in the interest of Encinitas citizens? Better start rearranging your schedule or pay the price.
Being an ideologue who's out of touch with reality is a problem.
ReplyDeleteI wish some organization would challenge this "fee," which we all know would actually be a tax. We should be allowed to vote on this, we, the People, besides our Mayor, Blakespear, sitting as Vice Chair of Scamdag. Vote her out; vote her out; vote her out.
ReplyDeleteRevolting. Too many on this site are to blame; know-it-all blowhards who thought they were the smartest guys in the room, giving Blakespear any quarter. So many living brain donors who shot down Gaspar for taking fiscally responsible, socially reasonable positions when she was mayor. But some are born and, when natural selection is prevented by modern medicine from taking its course, continue to exist just to complain. And now you've given us this disconnected pollyanna in Blakespear and the buyers remorse is deafening. Get your bikes tuned up, idiots, because she won't stop until your old ass is riding regularly.
ReplyDeleteMany that were in her camp, now want Mayor Blakespear gone.
ReplyDeleteThis could be a simple solution. Recall this America hating leftist fakespear. She and her girlfriend moosea. Then wise up and STOP voting for leftists. They hate their own country.
ReplyDeleteMy goodness, you are quite a jackass.
DeleteI like the idea of more Gas Tax. Jack it up 25% to pay for more none polluting modes.
ReplyDeleteReplace the cancer causing train locomotives with electric engines.
You left out electric jet liners and electric cargo ships.
DeleteOhh' and you should never buy "anything" made in China, the worst polluting country on the planet. If you own anything made in China, throw it out now.
Definition of "American hating leftist": Anyone critical of current or past American actions or policy particularly if you are not a white male.....unless a Democrat is president. I'll go back to my meds now.
DeleteThe gullible fools who swallow the bullshit bait laid out by Agent Orange are spewing his America hating leftist line. They say, OK, here I am, I have no objectivity or critical thinking ability so manipulate me, twist my mind, warp my morality, amp up my bigotry. I'm your fool.
DeleteIf you hate "leftist California" leave it.
Deletebased on what you just said, your a racist!
DeleteBlakespear is dangerous. She has forgotten why she was elected and who she was elected to represent. She has clearly shifted her allegiance and obligation to promoting fringe party ideas and furthering her political career. Like her hero Shaffer, Blakespear sincerely believes she knows better than we do what's best for us.
ReplyDeleteThe data are in.
ReplyDeleteAreas led by Republicans suffer economically.
“. . .districts won by Democrats account for 61 percent of America's gross domestic product, districts won by Republicans 38 percent.”
“Residents of districts won by Democrats generate 22% more output per worker, and have a 15% higher median household income.”
We’re done listening to the losers. The right should stop spouting failed theories and start trying to understand real world proven success.
https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2018/11/15/charts-democrats-represent-modern-economy-republicans-left-behind.html
10:32, the right and the left are aligned, albeit for different reasons, on extreme "solutions" such as congestion pricing. There is plenty for both sides to love about congestion pricing whether they're in it for profit or social engineering.
ReplyDeleteLeft out of the equation are those footing the bill.
Who is this mysterious Lou?
ReplyDeleteYears ago I figured out who EU/WC Varones is, and his name isn’t Lou.
10:32 undoubtedly related to the identity politic cabal whom are aligned with the good people whom believe no news is fake and Epstein is just another normal dude so let's not rock the boat.
ReplyDeleteKindly f*** off with your clowncar driving deceitful bullsh*t artisanism
12:40 Your post is irrational. If readers excuse the fact that you don't know who from whom, they can't ignore your irrationality. It makes your post worthless.
Delete12:40,
DeleteGood reasoning. Good data.
You’ve given us all some important information to consider.
The only thing irrational is your blindness towards the reality that most of the population wants to see the ruling elites all in prison jumpsuits
ReplyDeleteSo we can all lower our standard of living to that of a red state like Alabama?
DeleteNo thanks.
12:59 Sure, that's why Michelle Obama was just chosen as the most admired woman worldwide, and her husband was chosen as the second most admired man. Bill Gates was first.
DeleteStick with your ignorance and bigotry if you think it works well.
Everything the left does fails, and yet, the fools continue to vote for failure. Proving again and again, leftism is a mental disorder.
ReplyDeleteAnd when the points of failure are pointed out, the children go into A.D.D mode hurling the name calling. But in their minds that is debate. My fav is racist. That is their go to move. But as all things die out sooner or later, their moves have lost the impact they expected and now it's just blather.
Always watch the eyes of the leftist, they can't focus.
Another fact-proof Trump dummy.
DeleteHave someone read the linked article at 10:32 to you. Red states are consistently poorer, less productive, less healthy, and less educated.
We should just be honest and call them shit hole states.
OK, 3:31, deny your Social Security and Medicare.
DeleteDid you go to public schools? Did you collect unemployment insurance when you were down and out? Do you think minimum wage laws are a good idea? How about FDIC? Is that OK with you?
Republican welfare states. Uneducated and taking more than they give. If it wasn’t for California actually contributing to the federal government, the red stares would be poorer than Mexico. Yes, the blue states carry the red states financially. Now we have to pay those idiot miners 15 an hour, more subsidies for the broke ass republican states.
DeleteDump the entire City government.
ReplyDeleteDemocrats are nothing without lies and misinformation. All they have left are fabricated charges of racism against people they can’t challenge on the field of ideas. They’re a mess. They lie. They cheat. And they have zero integrity. It’s a national disgrace.
ReplyDeleteU mad, bro?
Delete7:21’s lack of statistical evidence to support his thesis is in and of itself a demonstration of the education gap that plagues the political right and the shit hole states.
DeleteA fighter pilot always gets attached and shot at when he or she is over the target.
ReplyDeleteThe jig is up.
Just stop.
Justice is coming for you.
** attacked
ReplyDeleteKeep it coming.
It just proves the point justice is at your door.
Agree 8;27
ReplyDeleteThe misinformation on this blog is telling.
Justice is coming to Encinitas much like Los Angeles this wonderful 22nd day of July in the two thousandth and nineteenth year of our Lord
Wait, now you are a huckster end times preacher? Ten minutes ago you were a fighter pilot.
ReplyDeleteCrap. Have I been picking on a retard?
If so, I’m so sorry.
7:21 has it backwards.
ReplyDeleteRepublicans can't win on their merits, so they cheat. That's what they did in Bush v. Gore and look what happened: 9-11, the invasion of Iraq and the international financial collapse.
They've been cheating since: voter suppression, gerrymandered districts and collusion with the Russians. And look what happened: the disaster that is Trump.
I suggest you do some homework and find out who all was the basis to the financial collapse. Let me give you some help, Barney Frank, Clinton and yes Obama. Now, read what they did to threaten lending institutions who wouldn't lend to people that should have "never received a loan".
DeleteOh' but wait, those are facts, it will never be admitted by believers. Darn those facts.
The fact is the financial collapse happened near the end of George W. Bush's second administration. That's almost eight years of W, his treasury secretary and Republican policies. To try to lay the blame anywhere else is total bullshit. You can't rewrite history to suit your ideology and stupidity.
DeleteAt the end of 8 years of Clinton there was a budget SURPLUS. What a failure.
DeleteIt takes time to remove people from homes that have been foreclosed on. The loans were sold to investment companies all over the world. Time is what it took to unfold. So, according you people the lending banks were never told to take questionable home buyers? This was all started with many in government threating the lenders to be more liberal with their lending practices. Bundles of loans were sold. These types of things take time to shake out. I'm sorry you guys don't get it but reading the history of the subject may help. I always refer to Barney Frank, as he is fun to make fun of. I think someone made a movie about the subject as well.
DeleteThe budget SURPLUS had nothing to do with the housing crash, you are mixing peanuts and cashews. It was a bad mistake to take on all the bad loans and I think they were suggesting to the lending institutions to make these loans for the right reasons but it backfired badly. Look folks, I didn't make this up. I simply read a lot about it. Once again, read what led up to the collapse. Timelines
anyone who wants to write blakespear and ask why she voted against residents in this cockamamie plan please post her responses here - priceless no doubt and would give insight to her thought process (if there is one). i'll be doing so and she needs to answer for her actions.
ReplyDeleteI think next time when someone is running for mayor, it may be best to find out what is their party line. And do they believe in unicorns of real life. This woman is clearly a earther and thinks everyone should be on a bicycle or on foot. Her stand on fictional science of man made global warming made that very clear. When someone like this or any other of that ilk is placed in charge of others then you darn well better hold on to your savings as she and her kind are out to get it. They are dangerous. Look at gavin newsome, mayor yoga pants garcetti in L.A or that nut case mayor in Berkley. Dangerous
DeleteBlakespear's party line and picture-perfect family photo ops and happy-happy "newsletters" have zilch to do with what she's really up to. She takes her marching orders from the BIA/bff attorney and now SANDAG. Despite campaign promises she's now playing for the other side.
DeleteDear Russian troll: Please show us a little more game than Sean Hannity talking points.
ReplyDeleteLeftist garbage:
ReplyDeleteRussia Russia Russia
Racist Racist Racist
No facts, just hoax and emotion.
Paging Jussie, Jussie you out there?
LOL
That all you got 9:33? Everyone else is destroying you with facts. Then, you even mention facts but don’t offer a single one. Are stupid or just a troll? You look stupid but please prove me wrong with an actual sentence not just a regurgitation of Fox hot takes,
DeleteHere’s something red states lead at. The top 10 are all red states. Stand up and cheer! No, seriously. You should probably stand up. Maybe walk around a little.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.stateofobesity.org/diabetes/
Mayor Blakespear and Council have pushed traffic out of Sprouts towards the Red Light Cameras at Encinitas Blvd. and El Camino Real. There's no way to avoid the Red Light Cameras with a new right turn only out of the Sprouts driveway. More money for the city and more traffic tickets for drivers are the ultimate results of prohibiting left hand turns from the Sprouts driveway onto Encinitas Blvd.
ReplyDeleteI don’t get it. How are they forcing you to run red lights?
DeleteLeft hand turns have resulted in accidents and many close calls.
DeleteThere is one douchbag on here that is a paid shill for media matters. Guess which one.
ReplyDeleteYou flatter yourself. It doesn't take a pro to debate you.
DeleteAnyone who completed fifth grade will do.
BTW, there's more than one.
1:01 You are an idiot. You can't rewrite history to fit your agenda. The financial collapse happened near the end of eight years of Bush. 9-11 happened because Condi Rice ignored the warning. Bush/Cheney's response was to invade Iraq, a country that had nothing to do with 9-11. The invasion is widely acknowledged as the worst foreign policy move in American history. The book about it is titled Fiasco. That's totally apt.
ReplyDelete6:22 you are an idiot. If you really read history maybe the worst disaster was John F. Kennedy getting us involved in Vietnam. You read one book some kook and it is fact?
ReplyDeleteRead the history, 7:24:
ReplyDelete"The increasing alarm over the spread of communist rule, however, would throw the U.S.-Vietnam relationship off track and eventually into war. Presidents Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon oversaw the conflict, which ratcheted up in intensity as the years passed by. Though each president expressed doubts in private about American involvement, none wanted to be blamed for losing Vietnam to the communists."
The book "Fiasco" is about the Bush invasion of Iraq. It's not about Vietnam.
There's no redemption for a willfully ignorant fool like you.
6:22, o.k, I'm an idiot. So what?
ReplyDeleteLet me make this simple to where even you can understand. Or, I can put it in question form. What caused the '08 collapse and who was behind it? I await your in depth reply.
I'm not 6:33. It started with the repeal of Glass-Stiegal. The totality of what caused it is multi-layered. You have blamed the whole thing on a gay democrat. This is partially true but much more complicated. Fortunately for you Sean Hannity crafted it down to fit your narrow thinking.
DeleteThe financial collapse happened near the end of eight years of the incompetent, corrupt, extremely stupid George W. Bush administration. His other big failures were 9-11, the invasion of Iraq and a wimpy response to Hurricane Katrina. Until Trump came along, he was the worst president in US history.
Deletehow does this work? are we forced to have trackers? anyone familiar with how this works elsewhere.
ReplyDeleteAll if the current generation systems use a passive RFID transponder. When the car passes under a gantry, a little box in the car sends back a unique code that identifies the car. Computers record that your car passed a specific point, at a specific time.
DeleteThese systems have drawbacks. They aren't very granular, as the number of gantry locations is limited by cost. Typically, they are used to create a single downtown zone in large cities where the pricing is applied. If you enter the zone during specified times or days, you are billed. Unfortunately, this causes unintended consequences. In London, for example, delivery businesses used to send in three or four small trucks every day to different parts of the city. Their routes were optimized for efficiency and they would get in, make deliveries, and get out. The pricing system caused many of them to shift to one big truck that enters only once triggering the toll. That truck then has to stay in a lot longer and drive more aggregate miles in the zone than the smaller trucks used to. Unfortunately, London did see an immediate drop in traffic jams after implementation, but over a decade the jams slowly came back due to issues like the truck example above.
The next gen systems under development will use GPS, so route, distance, and time of use pricing can be much more granular. If London had a GPS-based system, the longer miles traveled by the big truck would cost them more, and the incentives would favor more efficient options.
Currently, no GPS-based systems have been implemented in production. Singapore is a wealthy, tech-centric, dense, and highly regulated city-state. They were the first large scale congestion pricing system using the RFID technology with very good results starting in 1975. It looks like they are on track to become the first to implement a GPS-based system at scale. Singapore's GPS-based system has been in development and testing for years, and will begin production roll out next year.
IMO, SANDAG doesn't want to be first. They aren't anywhere near being ready. SANDAG's current effort is future vision stuff with no details. They will wait for lessons learned from at least a half dozen other implementations before they even begin forming specific design ideas. I would be shocked if SANDAG even started testing anything with a handful of government fleet vehicles in the next 15 years.
Thanks for the details!! wonder if Singapore's residents think the results are "very good" if given the choice not to pay extra.
Deletegiven SANDAG's embarrassing shortfall recently revealed it's crazy they are even considering these schemes that will only put more egg on their face.
also: how does enforcement work? what if you refuse a tracking device?
Deleteanother thought: assuming city workers are not exempt from tracking does this mean their whereabouts are public information? we can learn their daily movements? I might support the program just for that ;)
12:54,
DeleteNobody knows the answers to specific questions. It’s too early. Nothing has been proposed.
If they can require you to put license plates and registration tags on your car, and require you to pay insurance, and require you to wear a seatbelt, and require car seats for children, and . . .
then they can probably require you to allow a GPS box to be placed in your car.
thanks. a little too big brother for me especially for a town our size and I bet others will concur.
DeleteDo you commute everyday?
DeleteI agree that there is a long way to go on public acceptance. But remember that a lot of people spend a lot of time stuck in traffic, and that’s not going to get better in the next 15-20 years. If you commute 45 minutes each way today, what’s that going to be in the future—an hour each way? Two hours every work day @ 250 work days per year is 500 hours spent sitting in traffic. That’s about 21 whole days per year that could have been spent with family, relaxing, or surfing. If the real world results elsewhere in the world show a significant reduction in traffic, then what you call “big brother” may be the lesser of two evils for a large chunk of the population wasting their life behind a windshield. Especially if the technology can be designed specifically to protect privacy and not become big brother.
so 2:43, you are good with forcing financially painful behavior to drive revenue for sandag, period
Deleteif people can't avoid traffic it's because they CAN'T. they have schedules that don't permit that kind of flexibility. if I could I would in a heartbeat who wouldn't if it meant more time relaxing or surfing. if I could avoid 45 min each way (on a good day) don't you think I WOULD??
this is social engineering veneer on the real money issue to make up for this little whoopsie:
https://www.voiceofsandiego.org/topics/politics/sandags-last-tax-hike-is-billions-short-and-measure-a-could-be-too/
trust the gov't to protect my privacy? no thanks.
I’m not “good” with any proposal, because there isn’t one yet. I’d have to know what it would likely cost me, and how much time it would likely save me before deciding.
DeleteIf you are totally against using price to manage a limited resource for driving, then you must object to gas prices that change.
If you are being consistent, then you should be pushing for a fixed price on gasoline. That would have its advantages in a stable and known cost, but unfortunately the stations would all run dry during any supply disruption like a refinery offline for maintenance.
What’s worse? Uncertainty of future price, or uncertainty of availability? Right now we have one model for gas, and the other for roads.
YOU can decide to be tracked and fined, what if someone else doesn't want that? YOU decide for us all??
DeleteGasoline, as has been pointed out above, is way out of our control and run by the oil companies. Blakespear, on the other hand is easily replaceable and is in our control at the ballot box.
And anyway there's this thing called electric vehicles. Gas problem solved.
I think we all know I don’t get to decide. Do we need to go over how decisions are made in a representative republic, social contract theory—Locke, Hobbes, Rousseau?
DeleteI don’t think so.
And price fixing gasoline isn’t impossible. Venezuela does it. In fact the price is low. Very low. Stunningly low.
Delete$1 would buy you 3.5 million liters of gasoline, or over 924 thousand gallons. That’s pretty good, huh? Unfortunately, you can’t actually get it at all.
Fixed low prices or free scarce resources can absolutely be done. I’m not saying I think it’s a great idea, but it’s certainly an option.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/10/venezuela-crisis-fuel-driving-census-maduro
blakespear will decide, though. she'll decide for us and the next thing you know you'll be "out of compliance with the law" and getting notices in the mail and fined. so while you don't decide and may prefer to roll over for blakespear she WILL decide because she knows best. she needs to GO. you'd better have another think coming.
DeleteI don’t support anything yet.
DeleteI want to see the numbers, and I want SANDAG to prove we can trust the numbers (i.e. transparency, impartial third party audits of their methods and results). We’re years from having enough information.
for someone who fought so hard to push the concept 5:59 is suddenly backing off. you may think "we're" years from having enough info (you sure smell like a sandag insider with your opinions), but that won't stop blakespear from forcing this on us asap or at least trying to. she wants too badly to be a member of the sandag club and is already showing she'll throw over residents to appease her new best friends.
Deletehow will sandag, famous for hiding data, manage to produce trustworthy "numbers?" you may like their flavor of kool aid, the rest of us will pass.
Just curious, but does everyone who doesn't share your precise worldview have an ulterior motive?
Deleteno prob with other worldviews and motives, just curious about yours and why you changed your tune. the thing you were trying to talk us into is suddenly "years from having enough information."
Deletehave a feeling you realized you were not making friends and influencing people, correct me if i'm wrong.
You may want to read the whole thread. Show me exactly where I changed my tune please.
Delete11:38: "I would be shocked if SANDAG even started testing anything with a handful of government fleet vehicles in the next 15 years."
1:46: "It’s too early. Nothing has been proposed."
2:43: ". . . in the next 15-20 years. . ."
3:57: "I’m not 'good' with any proposal, because there isn’t one yet. I’d have to know what it would likely cost me, and how much time it would likely save me before deciding."
5:59: "I don’t support anything yet. I want to see the numbers. . ."
cherry picker, lol. it's all the time and energy you spent selling sandag between the lines.
DeleteForgot to add this article on Singapore's system.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/transport/shift-to-new-erp-system-starts-next-year-with-iu-swop
Hopefully the safer and more efficient future is autonomous vehicles and we need good freeways with roundabout at the intersections on local surface streets to support the safe efficient flow.
ReplyDeleteIf the KLCC hates the idea it means it has merit.
Of course, the head spokesperson, boy/man child chimes in with his nonsense.
ReplyDeleteIf there is anyone in Leucadia who makes Leucadia crappier, it is charley boy himself.
He must be a legend in his own mind because he surely is not among all but a very selective few who seek to profit off making our community worse.
Don't think he realizes he's in lockstep with Tasha on this one. Strange bedfellows....
DeleteWOW! Latest total projected cost of Leucadia North 101 Streetscape -
ReplyDeleteForty million dollars!!!!!!!!
Incompetent, inane, irresponsible and fiscal fools of city Council members of Tony Kranz, Joe Mosca, Kellie Hinze, Jody Hubbard, and the ringleader Mayor Catherine S. Blakespear who are spending the $40,000,000 of taxpayer money.
By the time "staff" gets done with it $40M will seem like a steal.
DeleteAnd no vote. This council sure likes to run roughshod over its residents.
Thanks KLCC for the obstruction and delay that increased the price.
DeleteMore reason to accelerate the project so it doesn’t continue to increase.
Let’s get this bond issued so we can roll trucks.
yeah nothing to do with SANDAG rejecting the city's substandard design that cause a redo and cost overruns. nothing to see here, move along charly.
DeleteWhat's the source of the information for a $40 million price tag?
Delete$40 mil...Thats another KLCC pull it out of my ass comment. They never stop.
ReplyDeleteKooks Love Child Charlie — thanks for your juvenile input.
Deletewhoops charly yer right not $40M lol
DeleteNotice how SDGE charges more from 4 to 10 p.m? Notice how the leftist in the state of California want to charge money to drive on the freeway during certain hours? Do you get it? It's a con job screwing over the tax paying workers yet again.
ReplyDeleteRecall newsom, the guy is nut case.
Clever of you, 12:25, to use the Red Scare "leftist" label. "Right wing asshole" doesn't have quite the same ring.
ReplyDeleteAnd there it is, the child like leftist. Can't you people ever control yourselves? The enemy within.
Delete2:56 You mean childish, not child like, but you're too dumb to know that.
DeleteAnd there it is again. They simply cannot control themselves. No, I meant what I wrote, child like. You may be best served if you go back on your medications.
ReplyDelete5:54 Child like is a compliment, and you are a childish idiot.
DeleteChildlike is one word, uneducated dummy.
ReplyDeleteUnless you mean: “He’s a child, like his sister.”
The dummy at 2:56 used it as two words, and the following posters imitated him. Just goes to show it's never a good idea to watch Fox "News"
ReplyDeleteYou can write all the bad things about me you want. It still doesn't change the fact that "leftism is a mental disorder".
ReplyDeleteAnd, "everything the left does, fails"
OK, deny your Social Security and Medicare benefits. Let's have another Great Depression. No more Civil Rights. All the good stuff government has done in the past 90 years no longer applies to you. You've been taking it for granted, but you can't anymore.
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