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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.
The two hundred miles of high-speed railway rely upon dense urban growth around transit stations to achieve long-term success. But as California and San Diego birth rates and population decline, some worry it’s too costly a risk.
Even though many people are still working from home, traffic is almost back to pre-pandemic levels. Telework, it turns out, won t exactly crush San Diego s auto emissions. If you put those additional people onto roadways, we will probably exceed where we were, said Ray Major, chief economist for San Diego Association of Governments.
As everyone tries to figure out the post-pandemic world of work, the agency is using a survey of businesses and employees to zero in on how telework might change traffic.
The findings, discussed at a SANDAG meeting on May 7, will help inform the draft 2021 regional transportation plan that will be released May 28. Officials expect remote work to grow far more than in any previous plan.
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