San Diego's regional transportation leaders continue to plan for major rail expansion despite lack of public funding. Republicans voice frustration.
San Diego’s leading transportation experts have for years dreamed of creating a metropolitan region less beholden to car travel, where an expanded network of rail lines and train stations connect commuters to the downtown airport, job centers and other locations.needed to make that a reality. Still, high-ranking officials with the planning agency continue to draw up blueprints for such a world, in large part driven by state mandates to curb planet-warming emissions from tailpipes.
SANDAG officials also continue to work on more immediately pressing issues, such as a new international border crossing with Mexico and addressing the region’s precariously perched coastal rail tracks in Del Mar., which runs from July 2023 through June 2024, includes more than half a billion dollars for capital projects, such as building new bicycle lanes and designing the new Otay Mesa East Port of Entry.
“I am proud to deliver a bipartisan budget that reflects the real priorities and values of people throughout the San Diego region,” county Supervisor Nora Vargas, who chairs the SANDAG board, said in a statement. “Working together with my colleagues from 18 cities and tribal nations, we’ve forged common ground on a budget that works to improve the quality of life for all San Diegans.”as opposed to spending on new mass transit projects.
“Today, the SANDAG Board of Directors adopted a budget for the new fiscal year that unfortunately doubles down on misguided transportation policies and does nothing to help ease the traffic burdens faced by working families in North County,” Escondido Mayor Dane White said in a statement. SANDAG’s top leadership, environmental groups and organized labor are hoping voters in November 2024 will support another sales tax increase to boost the region’s ability to expand rail services. Until then, the agency is focused on these priority projects:Otay Mesa East Port of Entry
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