Do Point Loma residents need another mobility study of the Rosecrans corridor by the same group of people, including the city? According to an article in the Peninsula Beacon dated Sept. 6, 2007, a traffic study was to be conducted that fall. Senior city traffic engineer L. Qasem stated, “The city will study traffic along the Rosecrans corridor to improve the traffic flow.” Obviously, based on current traffic conditions, it did not. Once again we will have a traffic study with no specific goals, just an expensive exercise in futility for nine months. A professional INDEPENDENT traffic study is needed to supply the recommendations on improvements. Let us take a look at the record of the Rosecrans Corridor Mobility Study Group\u2019s chairperson, Gary Halbert. As the former planning director of Land Management, Development and Planning Services for the city of San Diego; deputy city manager of Santee and presently as a board member of the Peninsula Community Planning Board, Mr. Halbert\u2019s record on resident\u2019s interests, quality of life, traffic congestion and environment has been dismal. In Santee for instance, he is partly responsible for “Mount Trashmore,” San Diego\u2019s toxic and degrading Sycamore landfill that the residents of Santee have endured for years. In his positions with the cities of San Diego, Santee and on the Peninsula, he has ignored major issues on traffic, noise and environment. Since his election to the Peninsula Community Planning Board, he has continually voted in favor of development projects that contribute to traffic congestion\/gridlock that effects the quality of life and environment in the Rosecrans St.-Point Loma area \u2014 for example, Liberty Station businesses and Rock Church, B.U.D.G. trucking Navy project, the airport, etcetera. Point Loma residents need officials in these positions who are concerned about traffic congestion, air pollution, safety and upgrading the infrastructure, rather than one that caters to the development industry as Mr. Halbert\u2019s past and present voting record indicates. Additionally, why are representatives of the Navy, schools, Rock Church and businesses that account for 75 percent of the traffic on Rosecrans Street NOT included in the Rosecrans Corridor Mobility Study Group?<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Do Point Loma residents need another mobility study of the Rosecrans corridor by the same group of people, including the city? According to an article in the Peninsula Beacon dated Sept. 6, 2007, a traffic study was to be conducted that fall. Senior city traffic engineer L. Qasem stated, “The city will study traffic along […]<\/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":"Latest Rosecrans corridor study a waste of time","_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-295173","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\/295173","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=295173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}