The city's latest inventory of greenhouse gas emissions underscores the urgency of building more walkable neighborhoods where residents can get around without driving.
San Diego has made enormous strides toward getting more of its electricity from renewable sources such as wind and solar in recent years. But, according to the city's latest inventory of greenhouse gas emissions, that progress is being canceled out by the city's biggest source of pollution: cars and trucks.of a climate-monitoring report uploaded to the city's website in March.
"It does need to trend downward — it has to — but policies don’t manifest immediately," said Alyssa Muto, San Diego's director of sustainability and mobility."We know that there's going to be some fluctuation. It's not a perfectly straight line." The most recent cost estimate for the widening, which requires the city to seize private property, is $39.8 million. The project was allocated $4 million in previous budget yearsJiwan Kohli lives only a half-mile from the project, which would widen Mission Gorge Road and Fairmount Avenue, and would reroute Alvarado Canyon Road through an industrial park. He said traffic had gotten a lot worse in recent years.
"As much as I would like to be in my car for less time, more than that, I would like to not have to drive my car at all," Kohli said.
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