Too bad no one was concerned about traffic when they let these people build their canyon-view homes. Oh, wait, they were and they included the bridge in the master plan. Don’t suppose any of these people are offering to return their lots to natural states to reduce the traffic problems.

They might want to look at the Tecolote Canyon Natural Park in Clairemont (where I live). Sure it would look better and be a better hiking/biking environment without the roads cutting across, and bridges like the one proposed for University City would have been a big improvement to our surface streets, but I don’t think burning the extra gas sitting in traffic or driving miles of my way is that environmentally friendly either. The bridge seems reasonable to me, and they’re certainly getting more environmental protection than our surface streets give the Tecolote Canyon.

Frankly I think the canyon is ugly and I don’t care for the fact that railroad tracks go down it. At the same time, I don’t want the road I live on to be like Genesee during rush hour.

The City Council continues to impose additional environmental and visual blight on the University area residents with a 36 million dollar bridge over Rose Canyon rather than planning a high speed mass transit system from University to Mission Valley. Not insignificant related costs along Regents Road and Arriba are for widening and improvements, traffic signals and continuing future heavy traffic maintenance.

A quiet, safe high-speed pollution free monorail system from UTC to Mission valley along Regents Road would have virtually no surface level impact on the neighborhoods, and would have the added effect of reducing the Genesee traffic. A monorail bridge over Rose Canyon would need only two guide rails slightly larger than just the handrails for a motor vehicle bridge. It could be a visually pleasing, suspension bridge requiring only two supporting towers well away from the canyon center. Controlled vehicle weights and dynamic loads allow what would otherwise appear fragile bridge towers and suspension. It would cast virtually no shadow on the canyon. The cost should be no more than one forth the cost of a motor vehicle bridge and construction impacts on the canyon could be insignificant.

The continuous four lane flow of autos, trucks and busses creates noise and pollution emanating from a height that will spread both over the whole canyon area. Contrast this with the electric powered, rubber tired monorail trains that are significantly quieter than a MTD bus and their speed makes what little there is of very short in duration.

A monorail guide rail can be constructed with significantly less construction impact on the neighborhood through which it travels and the adjoining neighborhoods than widening a street to make it a major artery. Rails and supporting structures are prefabricated and trucked into the location. A rectangular excavation for the supports is spaced from sixty to eighty feet apart. .

A detailed plan for a San Diego twenty
-first century mass transit system can be found by a click on http://www.SDMONORAIL.COM

build the bridge there are plenty of canyons it would solve so many traffic problems..