Four alternative routes for the proposed Coastal Rail Trail (CRT) bike-and-hike pathway project were unveiled Feb. 5 at a public workshop at Nobel Recreation Center.
\nThe Coastal Rail Trail (CRT) is a regional project that will establish a multi-use trail, including bike paths, to better connect the coastal cities of Oceanside, Del Mar, Carlsbad, Encinitas, Solana Beach and San Diego.
\nThe city project consists of 10 miles of multi-use trails extending from Carmel Valley Road at the northern point to Gilman Drive on the southern end. This segment of the trail will provide important connections between regional employment centers in Sorrento Valley, UCSD and University City, residential communities to the north and south, and Coaster train stations and future trolley stations in the project area.
\nFor months, the city has worked with the Coastal Rail Trail Project Working Group and the public to seek input on evaluation criteria and route segments for the Coastal Rail Trail project. This input, combined with a top-level technical analysis, resulted in the development of a number of potential alternatives for consideration.
\nAbi Palaseyed, a senior civil engineer for the city, the lead organization on the San Diego portion of the CRT, said the field of route alternatives is now whittled down to four \u2014 alternative numbers 2, 5, 7 and 4. These will ultimately move forward into the CEQA\/NEPA environmental review process.
\n“We (city) don\u2019t make the selection,” said Palasayed. “What we\u2019re supposed to do is identify the ones (routes) that score higher than the others and recommend those be taken through the environmental process.” Palasayed said the environmental review will determine “the preferred alternative with the least amount of impacts.” The next step in the CRT process is to seek City Council authorization this summer to proceed with environmental review of the four final alternative routes selected. That review is likely to take a year or longer, said Palasayed.
\nIn early 2016, the CRT project is expected to receive certification of its environmental impact report\/-environmental impact statement with approval of a final route alternative. Construction is then expected to commence sometime in 2017 after funding sources have been secured.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Four alternative routes for the proposed Coastal Rail Trail (CRT) bike-and-hike pathway project were unveiled Feb. 5 at a public workshop at Nobel Recreation Center. The Coastal Rail Trail (CRT) is a regional project that will establish a multi-use trail, including bike paths, to better connect the coastal cities of Oceanside, Del Mar, Carlsbad, Encinitas, […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":726,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"11560","_seopress_titles_title":"Options emerge for multi-city hike\/bike trail","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11560,11551,11593],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-295185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-la-jolla-village-news","category-news","category-no-images"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295185","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=295185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}