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Two hundred miles of high-speed rail carrying electric trains moving twice as fast as the region’s trolley system. A dozen new stations, including massive hubs near the downtown airport and the Tijuana border.
That’s the backbone of a recently released $160-billion blueprint aimed at making public transit as fast as driving a car which elected officials from across the San Diego region are preparing to discuss Friday.
Experts largely agree the plan’s long-term success would hinge on whether cities can usher in dense urban development around transit stations, at a time when birth rates in San Diego and throughout California are declining as overall population growth has all but come to a halt.
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Firefighters battled three small brush fires Wednesday morning and early afternoon in Santee, with the largest of the blazes scorching about three or four acres of vegetation near the Trolley Square at Santee Town Center shopping center, fire officials said.
The first blaze broke out in the morning at a homeless encampment on the north side of the city, Santee fire Chief John Garlow said. Crews made quick work of it, and it remained small.
Around 1:15 p.m., the largest of the three blazes erupted off Riverview Parkway, just northeast of Trolley Square between San Diego Christian College and Las Colinas Detention and Reentry Facility, Garlow said.