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Paradise Plundered tells San Diego story
Great column, and sounds like a good book. As a born and raised 3rd generation San Diegan (who now lives abroad, in Wisconsin), I always felt like the trolley was stupid. It seems designed and implemented by people who have never used and will never use public transportation. The first things connected should have been the airport, Balboa Park, the universities, beaches, shopping centers, and the border. These are more important than sporting venues and downtown, although it would make sense to connect them too. And yet there's still no airport connection, and isn't one to UTC or UCSD yet. (I always suspected that SD's rich and the powerful were in no hurry to allow the unwashed masses easy access to where they live, in places like La Jolla and other beach communities, which is why I am surprised that a line to UCSD will ever be built.) In cities where public transportation works and serves the people in general everything connects. High speed rail and municipal light rail come to the same station, not blocks away as in SD. One or the other will also connect one with air travel, etc., in ways that don't require people to walk long distances and make many transfers to different forms of transportation, such as from busses to taxis to trains.— November 29, 2011 7:13 a.m.