The San Diego municipal council unanimously approved Tuesday a long -awaited mobility master plan which classifies 380 proposed city projects which essentially share the same objective: encourage people to stop traveling by car.
The document – The first of its kind for San Diego – includes proposed cycle paths, neighborhood shuttles, roundabouts, sidewalk extensions, sidewalk projects, dedicated bus tracks and several other types of projects.
The city combines these projects in a single document so that they can be weighed against each other for prioritization and financing purposes.
“This mobility master plan is a key step to make our streets safer while protecting our environment,” said board member Stephen Whitburn. “It gets closer to being a city where everyone can walk, cycle and use transit easily and safely.”
The member of the Council Kent Lee said that the plan can help people lead less.
“We are not going to force people to get out of their cars to more sustainable modes of transport, but we can certainly encourage and plan it through intelligent land use,” said Lee.
The 132 -page plan has wide support. It was approved Tuesday by commercial and environmental groups, and no one has spoken out against this.
“The plan is an important and useful document for aligning the city’s transport priorities,” said Evan Strawn of the San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce. “The room is particularly favorable to transport solutions that will expand connectivity in commercial districts, allowing people to use transit to visit and support the fantastic local and small businesses in our city.”
Carina Contreras of the non -profit climate action campaign also congratulated her. “This mobility master plan really makes a good manner forward,” she said.
The City Consultative Advisory Council has approved the plan, but suggested that it should be better integrated into several other city plans – including the bicycle master plan, the road management plan, new plans to charge parking in more places and the Vision Zero effort to reduce traffic deaths.
The mobility plan approved on Tuesday is a dramatically different document from the version of the version of the city officials published in the fall of 2023. The number of projects almost tripled from 135, and performance indicators have been added to follow the city’s progress.
But the member of the Council Marni von Wilpert said that there were still only a handful of projects in the North Inland Council 5 district, which it represents.
“It makes me sad,” said Von Wilpert, explaining that his district has no cart, limited bus lines and fewer cycle paths than other parts of the city.
She suggested that neighborhood shuttles could help. “I know they are difficult to finance, but they can’t even get to the plan,” said Von Wilpert.
It also put pressure for more electric vehicle chargers, which are not part of the mobility plan, therefore more residents in its district dependent on the car can at least move to electric cars.
The member of the Council Raul Campillo praised the plan, but modified it to add street lamp installations and leveling of intersection to the long list of performance indicators that will be used to follow the progress.
A key indicator, the city officials said will be changes in the city officials who call the fashion mode – the percentage break in the way residents move in the city.
The city’s climate action plan provides cycling, walking and transit to represent 36% of travel by 2030 and 50% by 2036. Last year, they only represented 13%.
The other performance indicators are the number of miles that San Diegans are traveling by car, traffic deaths, the miles of the end-up track and the new roundabouts and the circles of traffic installed.
Projects in the plan vary considerably by type and by location.
They include unidirectional cycle paths along the 19th Street Market Street to Boundary Street, a cycle path along College Avenue de Navajo Road in Lemon Grove City Limits and a pedestrian walk along the north side of the University Avenue between the sixth avenue and the Boulevard Park in Hillcrest.
Some projects are more complex, including a plan to convert the conduct of the Jolla Village between Interstate 5 and the i-805 into a special corridor with a flexible lane in each direction which could be used for public transport or carpooling. The corridor may include the priority of the transit signal, the sidewalk extensions and the protected intersections.
And some are very ambitious, such as an air -air air connection between Mission Valley and Hillcrest.
Others focus mainly on walkers. They include the addition of pedestrian installations along Florida Street between Upas Street and Polk Avenue, which could include the expansion of the sidewalks, the fence of sidewalks and the addition of countdown and sidewalk extensions, also called bulbs.
Although the number of projects in the District 5 is thin, the plan includes an off-street cycle route offered which would closely follow the corridor of the I-15 motorway from the Powa Road interchange to Carmel Mountain Road.
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