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Residents Oppose Road Linking Mission Valley to Serra Mesa
The road of issue is simply a last ditch effort to put in place some kind of road to provide service to the development. Without that road the area will be grid-locked every day far worse than even Christmas time with commutes just to get across Mission Valley running up to an hour or more and all this gridlock filling into the exit and on-ramps to the freeways backing up our freeways. Friars and surrounding roads in the area have turn lanes established for 4 to 6 vehicles per stop light cycle. When tens of hundreds of cars try to make use of these routes it will take long cycles of lights for people just to get on and off roads, while the people behind will be stuck not being able to get around the people turning pushing gridlock everywhere. Likewise this developer touts itself as building a green community in the middle of San Diego while behind the scenes in back-rooms it is trying to force the elimination of bicycle lanes on our roadways in the areas to create massive four lanes of traffic flow. Indeed citizens, you are about to live in LA. All because we have let our politicians once again get away stealing from the community to help their friends make a fast buck off you...when are we going to put a stop to it?— February 4, 2012 12:10 p.m.
Residents Oppose Road Linking Mission Valley to Serra Mesa
Dear San Diego Residents, To my mind the Civita project is going to be a tragic development to the city of San Diego. The corny representatives and greedy developers that got this pushed through without proper support are going to freeze up our freeway system right in the middle of San Diego and are in the process of robbing the citizens of life in this city for many many years to come. All in the name of making a fast buck – much like ripping a stereo out of an expensive car to get ten bucks while causing thousands of dollars of damage. I am very grateful that the Reader is providing a form to inform others. I have found that many other media outlets in the city get advertisement from the developers and will not touch reporting on what is coming down the road. Because of the likes of Civita no more will San Diego enjoy the relatively un-congested traffic most times of the days it has for many years. Even though our traffic flow has slowly degraded over the years, you have not experienced anything close to what is coming --- think of the worst parts of LA traffic. In the EIR study for this project Cal Trans informed the city that they should NOT allow this development to take place unless the developer FIRST improved the surrounding freeway interchanges. Moreover, likely anticipating the very high costs of doing that, Cal Trans strongly recommended that the city not take any payment in place of making these improvements. And informed them that without these improvements the city’s freeway system would be unacceptably impacted. With 163 already rated an “F” at rush hour and I805 and I8 not far behind, it is considered to be very poor judgment and outlined to be strongly ill-advised to further impact a freeway system with such ratings without making significant improvements to alleviate further congestion and degradation of traffic. So what did the city cronies do? They accepted a fee instead from the developers in exchange for permits to build and did nothing significant to improve the freeway system. Not only that, further studies on improving the freeway and traffic infrastructure have bared out that the costs of the needed improvements are prohibitively expensive and are unlikely to ever happen (city can not afford them so they are just pocketing the paltry fee). So now the developer is building like crazy to get in what it can in before the citizens of the city realize they have been bilked with no infrastructure in place to support the monstrous project the developer is creating. Funny thing too is that the developer is trying to favorably spin the fact that they made payments to improve the roadway system in the area when the truth is the crony deal left them off the hook for most of the real costs of making the project viable.— February 4, 2012 12:07 p.m.