You’ve heard a lot about it for months now, in the news and on the talk shows. The 160-billion-dollar countywide transportation plan proposed by the head of the San Diego Association of Government or SANDAG.
And we’re all going to hear more about it tomorrow when the controversial plan is scheduled to be voted on by the SANDAG board which includes the mayors and other leaders of large and small cities in the county. That includes the mayor of the largest city in the county of course, San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria, who has come out against part of it.
There has been a lot of opposition to parts or all of the plan with most of it about the so-called road mileage charge of 2-cents you would pay for every mile you drive and new fees for Uber and Lyft users and a couple of proposed sales tax hikes.
The big controversy over this big plan does raise big questions that have no easy answers about what to do about the growing traffic congestion problem in the county and the need to address the impact of it all on the ways it affects climate change.
Our kids and our grandkids are the ones who mostly will be facing the effects of whatever is decided on now about what to do about this transportation issue. So we’ll all be watching what happens and the road ahead and what it could mean for what San Diego will be like in the years and decades ahead.
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