{"id":1778,"date":"2019-11-01T10:00:02","date_gmt":"2019-11-01T17:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/?p=1778"},"modified":"2019-10-31T19:30:50","modified_gmt":"2019-11-01T02:30:50","slug":"sandags-latest-project-is-several-years-delayed-and-tens-of-millions-over-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/?p=1778","title":{"rendered":"SANDAG&#8217;s Latest Project is Several Years Delayed and Tens of Millions over Budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SANDAG has big dreams, most of which will never come to fruition. Among these is their desire to build over 70 miles of bike lanes and pedestrian improvements throughout San Diego, which is, unsurprisingly, behind schedule and millions of dollars over budget.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Despite blaming \u201cunforeseen delays\u201d and \u201crising construction costs,&#8221; it can\u2019t be ignored that SANDAG now has a budget $79 million higher than when it started, and is well behind schedule on these newer projects. We can\u2019t expect much more from the horribly inept association at this point.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Burning.jpg\" width=\"378\" height=\"227\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">San Diego is an auto-centric city, so pushing the transition to public transit or carbon-free mobilization is much more difficult than just building new bike lanes and calling it a day. It\u2019s a complicated, politically fraught task.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SANDAG has clashed with city planners, neighborhood residents, and its own staff over a consensus that works for everyone. They\u2019re clearly demonstrating that their plans aren\u2019t desired by constituents\u2014with many having been entirely resented.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some planned bicycle routes are dangerously close to busy corridors unsafe for riders, and others have been repeatedly redesigned to please residents. Other projects come at the expense of parking\u2014a vital part of transportation around San Diego, especially in urban neighborhoods.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Despite these conflicts, SANDAG blindly pushes forward, with their success relying on some miracle situation in which bike ridership drastically increases overnight. The unnecessary and undesired plan only exemplifies how out of touch SANDAG is with San Diego citizens.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Though public transport, biking, and walking may be SANDAG&#8217;s dream, they need to work with the reality of the situation to create tangible change that benefits San Diegans, rather than virtue-signaling vague support for a \u201csustainable future.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SANDAG has big dreams, most of which will never come to fruition. Among these is their desire to build over 70 miles of bike lanes and pedestrian improvements throughout San Diego, which is, unsurprisingly, behind schedule and millions of dollars over budget. Despite blaming \u201cunforeseen delays\u201d and \u201crising construction costs,&#8221; it can\u2019t be ignored that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1298,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v16.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>SANDAG&#039;s Latest Project is Several Years Delayed and Tens of Millions over Budget - San Diego News Desk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/?p=1778\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"SANDAG&#039;s Latest Project is Several Years Delayed and Tens of Millions over Budget - San Diego News Desk\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"SANDAG has big dreams, most of which will never come to fruition. 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