The
Clairemont Times Serving Clairemont, Bay Park, Linda Vista & Kearny Mesa
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News of the Neighborhoods
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OCTOBER 2016
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$1 Billion Grant for Public Transportation
COMMENTARY
Regents Road Bridge - City Council Vote Public safety in UTC, UC and Clairemont hang in the balance. by Louis Rodolico
Coast Trolley Extension, an 11 mile extension of the Blue Line from Old Town heading North with 9 stations: Tecolote Rd, Clairemont Dr, Balboa Ave, from there it crosses over Interstate 5 (I-5) with a stop at
This December San Diego City Council will decide whether or not city taxpayers in Districts; 2,3,4,5,6,7,8 & 9 will gift 16.7 million dollars each year, forever, to District 1. The vote will be over the controversial Regents Road Bridge which is in District 1. This chart is based on Century costs, which allow high start-up costs to be spread out over the life of a project. The Traffic Man Hours and Gasoline being wasted, because the bridge was not built, cost city taxpayers 12 million dollars each year, or 1.2 billion each century. This does not include; hospitalization, vehicle repair and funerals. Idling vehicles on Genesee vent 10 million pounds of CO2 into the atmosphere each year, unnecessarily. Let’s look at the logic for an additional firehouse and satellite police station. If council votes to remove the bridge then West UC can later turn to council and say; “You, council, removed planned roads. The firehouse, police station
SEE Grant, page 4
SEE Regent Road Bridge, page 13
County Board of Supervisors Chair and SANDAG Chair Ron Roberts and Federal Transit Administration Acting Administrator Photo by Chris O’Connell/Clairemont Times Carolyn Flowers.
Local stops include Tecolote Rd, Clairemont Drive & Balboa Ave By Chris O’Connell On September 14th on the campus of UCSD a full funding grant agreement in the amount of $1,000,000,000 was made to
SANDAG from the Federal Transit Administration. The total cost of the project is estimated at $2.1 billion, the TransNet half cent tax is covering the other half. This now paves the way for construction to begin on the Mid