Tag: Interstate 15

  • Fossils Unearthed Along State Route 15

    San Diego Natural History Museum paleontologist Rodney Hubscher holds a bed of mussels and a scallop shell taken from the hillside along state Route 15 north of Adams Avenue, March 15, 2016. | Photo Credit: Megan Burks, KPBS By Megan Burks A small whale bone sticking out from a sandstone bluff alerted Caltrans crews working…

  • City Heights Residents Celebrate Centerline Groundbreaking

    Video Credit: Katie Schoolov, KPBS By Megan Burks Architect Stephen Russell, San Diego Councilwoman Marti Emerald, local Caltrans Director Laurie Berman and resident Maria Cortez unveil renderings of the Centerline project on July 8, 2015. | Photo Credit: Megan Burks Caltrans broke ground Wednesday on a project more than three decades in the making. Residents,…

  • Tweet City Heights: Women-only Swim Makes The Huffington Post

    By Megan Burks Women-only Swim Makes The Huffington Post The Huffington Post and U-T San Diego ran commentary on the flap over my article on women-only swim hours at the Copley Family YMCA this week. Professors Avi Spiegel and Adina Batnitzky coauthored the piece, saying the story only garnered harsh reactions because the women who…

  • Mid-City Waits Decades for Bus to Come

    City Heights resident Maria Cortez spoke of her nearly three-decade wait for a bus line to be built along Interstate 15. Transit advocates and a handful of residents met at the site of the long-delayed project to ask that SANDAG prioritize transit investments over highway expansions. | Photo Credit: Randy Van Vleck By Adrian Florido…

  • City Heights’ Express Bus to Stay on Interstate

    Photo Credit: Sam Hodgson By Adrian Florido Published March 29, 2011 on City Heights residents who want to ride an express bus along Interstate 15 will be able to pick it up in the freeway’s center lanes after all. Buses will stop at platforms on the freeway, which passengers will be able to access using…