Trolley System Access ‘Very Ineffective’
There are several ways to judge public transit. Our recent Fact Check zeroed in on one measure, called the farebox recovery ratio, which measures cost effectiveness. Here’s UCLA researcher Juan Matute...
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Morning Report Version I: All the Other News
If you’ve been following the scandal surrounding Mayor Bob Filner. This interview with former Chief of Staff Vince Hall is amazing. Read it now. For all the rest of the Filner-scandal news, I’m going...
View ArticleHow San Diego’s Transit System Stacks Up Nationally, in Four Charts
San Diego’s much-maligned transit system is in the process of implementing a series of upgrades. The trolley’s blue line, the most successful leg of the existing network, is heading toward final...
View ArticleComments of the Week: ‘I’m Disillusioned at Best’
Our local transit system and how it compares with other cities has spurred a lot of comments in the past few weeks, including one highlighted below. Readers also weigh in on Mayor Bob Filner’s...
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‘Fareboxes Won’t Fix Transportation’
Fareboxes won’t fix transportation. Indeed San Diego mass transit operations are efficiently managed. But boasting about a few percent differences in farebox recoveries is a tempest in a teapot in the...
View ArticleMorning Report: Police Chief Weighs In, Stays In
Bill Lansdowne, the low-profile police chief of the nation’s eighth-largest city, could quit his job later this month and take home a full pension. But he says he’s sticking around during a mighty...
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Filner’s Promises: The Mayor’s Final Report Card
Eight months isn’t a lot of time to follow through on promises. Shortly after Mayor Bob Filner took office, we began issuing report cards to track nearly 60 pledges he made on the campaign trail. He’s...
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Everything You Need to Know About the Barrio Logan Community Plan
The San Diego City Council is set to vote on a new community plan, a blueprint for long-term growth, for Barrio Logan this week. It’ll be the first community plan the city renews since the 2008 update...
View ArticleMorning Report: Breaking Down SD’s Ambulance Math
There are heat maps and time goals, and there’s something called MARVLIS – but ultimately, what makes San Diego’s fleet of ambulances fan out across the city to places they’ll be needed most in a major...
View ArticleUnion, Civic San Diego Might Begin Negotiations
The first official step toward expanding Civic San Diego’s authority beyond downtown could take place in the City Council’s closed session Monday. Civic San Diego, a city-controlled nonprofit formed by...
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Reality Check: Mid-City Rapid vs. the Clock
Reality Check is an occasional VOSD series where we take on a piece of prevailing wisdom about an issue we’re covering. Think of it as a cousin to Fact Check – we’re vetting a popular interpretation of...
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New Bus Line Distinction Under ‘Rapid’ Fire
San Diego’s mid-city neighborhoods are getting a new, faster bus service this year. The idea was to create a bus line that mimicked the trolley, but cost a fraction of the price. But the mid-city...
View ArticleSan Diego Explained: What to Expect from Mid-City Rapid
There’s a new transit option coming to mid-city neighborhoods at the end of the summer. It’s expected to be cheaper than the trolley and a touch faster than the bus. It’s called “bus rapid transit,”...
View ArticleAn Unruly Clairemont Crowd Asks: ‘Leave Us in Peace’
“Live somewhere else!” “Come back when you have a mortgage!” “That’s not reality!” Those were some of the things people shouted at 23-year-old Clairemont resident Gina Schumacher during a Wednesday...
View ArticleTaking the Community Out of Community Plans
If it can happen in Barrio Logan, can it happen in Clairemont, too? Last year, San Diego’s City Council approved a new community plan for Barrio Logan. The shipbuilding industry in the neighborhood...
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New Bike-Share Station Locations Soft-Pedal City Heights
This post has been updated to include a map of San Ysidro bike-share locations. New bike-share station locations unveiled last week reinforce traditional ideas about where people might want to pedal to...
View ArticleHere’s Where MTS Says You Have First Amendment Rights – and Where You Don’t
If you want to demonstrate, picket or hand out pamphlets within San Diego’s public transit system, in most cases you’re out of luck. Last week, the board of the region’s Metropolitan Transit System...
View ArticleHere’s How You’ll Get to Work in 2035, San Diego
After years of civic leaders trumpeting the importance of building new homes near transit and jobs, San Diego is committing to changing the way residents get to work. The changes are part of the city’s...
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What’s That Lot: Transit Riders See Possibilities in Two City Heights Spaces
There are 57 million square miles of land on earth, including the 4,206 square miles of San Diego County. Even as our population grows, spaces in the midst of our concrete jungle lay strangely fallow....
View ArticleNew SANDAG Policy Leaves Transit Advocates Wanting More
Transit advocates hoped a new policy the regional planning agency SANDAG has been working on since 2013 would compel or at least entice cities to plan for more homes and jobs around public transit...
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