Tag: Transportation

  • Field Guide: Reclaiming City Heights Streets for Pedestrians

    By Megan Burks [Editor’s Note: Field Guide is a weekly email bringing you the news, explainers and action items needed to navigate your changing community. Click here to subscribe.] FIELD GUIDE TOOLBOX Pedestrian Accidents per 1,000 residents from 2002-2007: City Heights: 4.9 San Diego: 2.7 Click Bicycle Crashes per 1,000 residents from 2002-2007: City Heights:…

  • New Market Revives Concern About Dangerous Crossing

    A new grocery store in City Heights has revived a sense of urgency among advocates to do something about a dangerous intersection at University Avenue and 54th Street that many pedestrians have to cross to get there. Curving right turns make it hard for drivers and pedestrians to see each other. | Photo Credit: Sam…

  • Tweet City Heights: Contested Transportation Plan Gets the Go-Ahead

    By Megan Burks SANDAG Passes Transportation Plan Following Heated Criticism The San Diego Association of Governments this morning approved its Regional Transportation Plan. The plan lays out how the region will spend $200 billion on transportation projects in the next 40 years, and sets the tone for municipalities throughout California as they figure out how…

  • 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…

  • Tweet City Heights: Study Calls for End to Food Stamps Fingerprinting

    By Megan Burks Study Supports Ending Fingerprinting of Food Stamps Applicants A study by the Public Policy Institute of California gives ammunition to a bill that would end the state’s policy of fingerprinting food stamps applicants. The study confirms what lawmakers and advocates of the bill have been saying—the practice keeps people in need from…