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Already in some places in Hillcrest you can walk to restraunts/shops. In UTC you can get around on busses (well, because UCSD spurred more public transport dens
by ivalm 7y ago
Already in some places in Hillcrest you can walk to restraunts/shops. In UTC you can get around on busses (well, because UCSD spurred more public transport density).
Right now San Diego feels like an overgrown suburbia. If we transform into a real urban city I welcome it. The increased housing density will also presumably decrease housing prices, further making a more equitable city.
- cardiffspaceman 7y agoAll those 'light rail/trolley/MTS' tracks going in around UCSD back and forth across I-5 definitely create one MTS platform in UCSD itself and other ones close by. At least one platform in the center of Genesee between the two major malls. Not up and running yet. UTC/UCSD is one of the major asparagus patches of skyscrapers in San Diego.
- klenwell 7y agoI remember 20 years ago when I was a UCSD student hearing a discussion on the local NPR station about extending the trolley to UCSD. I believe university leadership opposed it at that time. I recall one of the counterarguments was that it would bring more crime to campus. (I believe the term "rapists" was used by the person on-air representing that position. I don't recall if that person was a spokesperson for the university.) In any event, classic Nimbyism. Memory still pisses me off. Glad to see at least the University has come around, even if I imagine most La Jolla residents haven't. For reference, if I'm not mistaken, it was a La Jolla resident who invented that cheap clicker device that you can click to instantly report plane noise complaint to FTA. Cool little project but, well, yeah.
- blackflame7000 7y agoIt's the residents in La Jolla that don't want transients riding the line to their area. They want to keep them restricted to downtown
- Eiriksmal 7y agohttps://twitter.com/testflyjets https://twitter.com/testflyjets Close. Chris McCann lives in Point Loma, directly under the SAN flight path. :) Edit: Oh, nope. You're right, he is in La Jolla.
- SamReidHughes 7y agoThe clicker guy / plane noise guy was in real La Jolla, this is just going to affect UCSD area zip code La Jolla, and the rest of UTC. There was a spike in UTC area visible homelessness last summer, making the area Starbuckses uninhabitable, and the transit line will certainly make quality of life even worse.
- arthurjj 7y agoI lived in Banker's Hill in 2010 and even then you could get to everything you needed via walking and bus. With ridesharing, scooters and better public transit it is possible to go sans-car.
- blackflame7000 7y agoYou lived in perhaps the most central part of San Diego so I'm not sure your experience is really representative. People in Escondido and vista cannot ride a bus or take a scooter to downtown because it would easily take half their day.
- CalRobert 7y agoThose people are not in San Diego.
- bobthecowboy 7y agoThey certainly commute into San Diego and are part of the the SD Metro area.
- ivalm 7y agoSure, and these people will now have opportunity to live closer to their workplace thanks to higher density housing.
- blackflame7000 7y agoA lot of people like living there because they can own land. I think you underestimate how many Americans would prefer land over a high-rise.
- CalRobert 7y agoAnd the other Americans, in cities, are sick of subsidizing their commute.
- Eric_WVGG 7y agoI suspect it would amplify the desirability of the city, to the point where you’d start to see housing prices creep up again. But I welcome it. We need more livable cities in warm/moderate climates.