Tag: Transit

  • City Heights ‘Can Live With’ Transportation Committee Assignment

    By Megan Burks City Council voted last week to approve Mayor Bob Filner and Council President Todd Gloria’s SANDAG committee recommendations. At stake in the vote were assignments to the regional planning agency’s committees on everything from the border to the region’s airports. Of particular interest to City Heights was the representative selected to serve…

  • City Heights Stuck in the Middle of Filner-Gloria Spat

    By Megan Burks Tuesday’s uncomfortable row between Mayor Bob Filner and Council President Todd Gloria over SANDAG committee assignments left observers reeling. The power tussle over who gets to hand down the recommendations and how turned into an early snapshot of what many are expecting to be a colorful and rowdy transition from Capitol Hill…

  • SANDAG Agrees to Negotiate

    By Tom Fudge This week a judge struck down SANDAG’s 40-year transportation plan. Friday morning, the planning agency’s board met in closed session, then released a statement saying SANDAG would seek a settlement with plaintiffs. But they did not rule out the possibility of a court appeal. The agency’s Regional Transportation Plan outlines construction projects…

  • Video: SANDAG Plan Derailed

    Jack Shu, a member of the board of directors for the Cleveland National Forest Foundation, talks to KPBS about his organization’s lawsuit against SANDAG’s regional transportation plan. By Maureen Cavanaugh, Megan Burke and Peggy Pico Click here to listen to the KPBS Midday Edition segment Earlier this week, a San Diego Superior Court judge ruled…

  • Public Transit is Having a Moment

    By Andrew Keatts It’s been a good couple weeks for San Diego public transit advocates. In addition to their big win over the San Diego Association of Government’s 40-year transportation plan, two like-minded leaders have ascended to the top of city leadership: Mayor Bob Filner and City Council President Todd Gloria, respectively. “It does all…