It appears the Navy and the city of San Diego refuse to let the community know what is going on. The potential for gridlock and air pollution relates to the timing and overlap of the following 20 construction projects starting in October 2010 and continuing through 2012. The Navy<\/b> Scheduled Navy projects include the: \u2022 fuel-recovery project to resolve the fuel-plume leak \u2022 demolition of the vintage Navy fuel facility \u2022 excavation and thermal treatment of contaminated soil from the large fuel facility \u2022 backfit of the new Navy fuel facility \u2022 daily operation of the Navy\u2019s new fuel facility; \u2022 excavation and capping of three hazardous materials sites (numbers 5, 9 and 23) \u2022 ongoing face-lift of the Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery The city<\/b> The city has its own share of planned projects, including the replacement of 13 sewer and water lines in Point Loma. The cumulative traffic alone would double, even triple the amount of traffic into the local circulation system, which is already gridlocked in the following areas: \u2022 Nimitz Boulvard\/Rosecrans Street \u2022 Nimitz Boulevard\/Chatsworth Boulevard \u2022 Nimitz Boulevard\/I-8 \u2022 Catalina Boulevard\/Ca\u00f1on St. \u2022 Ca\u00f1on\/Del Mar Avenue \u2022 Rosecrans Street\/I-5 \u2022 Del Mar Avenue\/Chatsworth Boulevard \u2022 Harbor Drive\/Scott Street \u2022 Harbor Drive\/Rosecrans Street So once again, the city, the Navy and their contractors are leading Point Loma into dramatic traffic snarls and air pollution above ambient standards. The city of San Diego and the Navy are responsible for this complete lack of project planning, as evidenced by the number of project permits scheduled in this time frame. Notwithstanding their failure to recognize the large impact on the community, both the city and the Navy completely overlooked the safety concerns for schools, pedestrians, cyclists, fire trucks, paramedics, ambulances, etc., by allowing this construction that further increases the volume of traffic on substandard roads, outdated traffic signals, signs and service roads designed decades ago for fewer cars and trucks.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It appears the Navy and the city of San Diego refuse to let the community know what is going on. The potential for gridlock and air pollution relates to the timing and overlap of the following 20 construction projects starting in October 2010 and continuing through 2012. The Navy Scheduled Navy projects include the: \u2022 […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":726,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"11561","_seopress_titles_title":"Host of projects to boost PL traffic gridlock, air pollution","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11593,11552,11561],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-294389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-no-images","category-opinion","category-peninsula-beacon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/726"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}