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2024-09-07 16:36:38

I’ve been getting around Guadalajara, Mexico on my current vacation in a lot of ways including the light rail system (tren ligero). People here definitely use it, too. It’s wonderful to see.
Overall I like the transit system, but I wish the system was more comprehensive and had a heavy rail metro to more efficiently move large groups of riders around.
Guadalajara is the Mexican Republic’s second largest city and has a regional population of several million. Yet the transit system is probably adequate for a much smaller city.
In some ways Guadalajara’s transit system is like my hometown’s - San Diego, California. Although few people use it in comparison, it is simply too small to service the 3.1 million inhabitants of San Diego County.
Alas, the transit overlords in San Diego continue to balk at any meaningful expansion of its system, especially rail. Until I’m proved wrong, looks like freeway expansion/ widening is the only game in town.
#guadalajara #mexico #transito # transit #sandiego #california #SANDAG #SDMTS https://image.nostr.build/18f0d2f881508499e78937fcfada5c68eadaa673acf066e3901982adc38336dc.jpg

2024-09-07 16:15:46

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🤯

2024-09-05 05:14:05

Just indefinitely muted a guy who posted a police officer being caught on fire. Did the same for a person I was following for reposting the attack. Bummer because I had, up til then, enjoyed that person’s posts.
I’m all down for people’s freedom to post whatever on Nostr. But yeah, I’m not interested in violence on police vids.

2024-08-29 22:48:57

San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG) is the regional transportation planning agency based out of San Diego.
The Union-Tribune newspaper reported yesterday that SANDAG is doing a 180 degree turn on serious planning for building a people mover from San Diego International Airport to the trolley (light rail system).
This comes on the heels of the ousting of a pro-transit head of SANDAG. The new head honcho - Mario Orso - is very, very, very likely the guy who killed the long-promised project.
It f**king kills me. San Diego is perhaps the 7th or 8th largest city in the good ol’ USA and our local governmental agencies continue to deprive the population of such a long needed rail-to-airport connection.
SANDAG says it has to analyze some new data and should have something to say about the issue sometime in late 2025.
Typical SANDAG. Historically it has been pro freeway, anti transit expansion.
#SANDAG #transit #marioorso #sandiego

2024-08-26 16:49:14

The gap in Madrid is, apparently, substantial.
Mind it. https://image.nostr.build/5f868f1577939a4e8d8de2f33e5502684d5c293e4f9112c5bc5fd3d5f80ca955.jpg

2024-08-23 23:26:09

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Good post.
Btw have you ever had pushback from religious people?

2024-08-22 00:11:45

Out-of-Control Homelessness in San Diego, California
The following is an opinion piece by Damon Zwicker which was published in the San Diego Union-Tribune on 5 August 2024. Zwicker was horrified by the apocalyptic conditions in downtown San Diego near where the famous Comic Con event was being held.
He doesn't pull any punches. His words might anger you, or not. Either way, as a San Diegan who daily navigates the streets of downtown San Diego, I believe it is important to re-post Damon's piece:
"Profound disappointment and outrage are the only words I can think of to describe the deplorable conditions in the Gaslamp Quarter, particularly around Fourth Avenue and E Street.
As a visitor to San Diego as an employee of an event company tasked with installing experiential marketing events for Comic-Con San Diego, I was shocked, astonished and horrified by what I witnessed during my recent visit.
The streets are plagued by individuals evidently intoxicated, littered with glass pipes and needles. Sidewalks are covered in feces and urine, trash is strewn everywhere, and orange-vested city workers are reduced to pressure washing the streets and mopping the sidewalks in a futile attempt to maintain some semblance of cleanliness. Adding to the horror, zombie-like people wander the streets in a drug-filled haze or stand doubled over at the waist, “nodding” for extended periods, completely oblivious to their surroundings. Is this the image of a world-class city?
These dangerous and unsanitary conditions are a disgrace, posing serious risks to both residents and tourists. The lack of effective, systemic problem-solving to address these issues is a glaring failure of leadership and governance. The city’s reputation is tarnished by the evident inability to manage and mitigate the rampant drug use and associated squalor that has taken over what should be a vibrant and welcoming area. To any and all visitors, I strongly advise staying away from the San Diego Gaslamp District for your own safety.
Mayor Todd Gloria and the people of San Diego should be ashamed of allowing such conditions to persist. It is clear that there is severe neglect in addressing the root causes of these problems and implementing sustainable solutions. The sight of people with substance use disorders openly using drugs and the pervasive filth on the streets speaks volumes about the city’s priorities and the effectiveness of its public health and safety strategies. These issues are not only a blight on the city’s image but also a significant public health crisis that demands immediate and robust intervention.
Police officers in patrol cars and on foot were either unable or unwilling to intervene in the open drug use happening along Fourth Avenue and continuing down E Street. The complete lack of response from law enforcement not only endangers the lives of those directly affected by the drug trade but also puts law-abiding citizens at significant risk. This neglect erodes the community’s trust in the Police Department’s ability to maintain public safety. It’s disheartening to think that those who are tasked with ensuring the safety and well-being of the area’s residents and visitors have become so desensitized to these conditions that they no longer recognize them as abnormal or urgent.
Adding to my dismay, when I asked a security guard doorman, “What’s up with all the open drug use and filth on the streets?” he responded with a resigned, “Welcome to San Diego! This is how it is now.”
This response underscores a disturbing acceptance of these dire conditions, reflecting a community and city leadership that have either become desensitized to the decay and danger surrounding them or simply do not care. The fact that such conditions are met with resignation rather than urgency speaks volumes about the systemic neglect and apathy that has allowed this situation to deteriorate to its current state.
I will actively discourage anyone I know from visiting this city until there is a significant and tangible improvement in these conditions. San Diego deserves better. Its residents and visitors deserve to walk through the streets without fear or disgust.
It’s time for the city’s leadership to take real, meaningful action to restore the Gaslamp Quarter to a place of pride, not a source of shame. This means investing in comprehensive drug rehabilitation programs, increasing the presence and effectiveness of law enforcement, and ensuring that public spaces are kept clean and safe for everyone. Only through dedicated and sustained efforts can San Diego hope to reclaim its reputation and ensure a better quality of life for all its inhabitants and visitors."

2024-08-20 17:40:47

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Fascinating!

2024-08-17 18:29:23

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Uhf. This makes me feel uncomfortable. It was me.

2024-08-17 04:01:35

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🤣

2024-08-17 00:11:45

This building was formerly part of the drive-in movie theater in National City, California. The grounds are still used for a swap meet, but overall a pretty decrepit place. My Spidey senses were tingling.
#nationalcity #california https://image.nostr.build/e68fad7befdd07ffcca3defbea7c6afb4f0cf224021bf76a562693153f0bb061.jpg https://image.nostr.build/52745088fbb12968e66c01ae4d25bfd7b57c5794dd2c924344615cec19f9794f.jpg

2024-08-16 21:26:50

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Subscriptions are like leeches. Both drain you.
But at least leeches are honest. They’re upfront about their intentions.

2024-08-09 00:19:11

Tis the season for monsoonal San Diego. And with it comes the mugginess. And with that comes a little voice in the back of my head telling me not to go for a run 🥵

2024-08-09 00:01:25

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I spoke with MTS customer service about this issue. They said someone from Planning would call me back.
Yeah, right.
Except they did. I was super appreciative they called, and for informing me the reason for the bus cutbacks: driver shortage.
I still wonder why the MTS can’t redirect drivers from lesser-used routes. The network is huge, and I know from experience bus routes on the fringes can be sparsely populated.

2024-08-02 18:32:02

San Diego’s public transport wing MTS have been cutting back hard on bus service. Pictured is an example of the new 20 minute wait times for one bus that goes through the heart of the metropolitan area.
Twenty f**king minutes?!!!
MTS desperately wants to onboard new ridership, but have undermined their effort with service cutbacks.
No one with a car is going to wait that long. People of lesser means will suffer extra. They have no choice.
#sandiego #sdmts #mts #publictransit #toddgloria https://image.nostr.build/114c6b21ac73aef01f83018887305f9a2fd4d28f2ce43e9a5609779f90fdfa32.jpg

2024-07-31 15:46:48

Good news for rational San Diegans: the City Council approved high-density zoning changes for some neighborhoods yesterday.
Bad news for our local NIMBYS (and there are plenty): cities are always in motion. To think your neighborhood must NEVER change, and must ALWAYS remain exclusionary to most, is unrealistic dreaming.

2024-07-24 15:08:34

San Diego city council approved Blueprint SD yesterday. It is an affirmation of the city’s commitment to density and vision of a transit-based future.
But there is no money or political will to improve San Diego’s transit system. There are no express trains getting people to work centers from the suburbs, no metro efficiently letting people quickly navigate the city, and no high-speed train services to Los Angeles (it’s actually faster to drive).
Don’t get me wrong. I desperately wish we had all that. I support what the city council is trying to do, too. But our current transit system is too slow and inconvenient.
#sandiego

2024-07-20 18:08:18

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Please forward this to the arseholes who talk too damn loud on their phones!!

2024-07-19 00:10:58

San Diego’s mayor really pushing for the city to finance what would be the largest homeless shelter in the USA to the tune of ~$30M a year.
There are thousands of chronic homeless people in downtown San Diego. The shelter could definitely provide just the help so many need.
But…
…$30M annually?
Even a city report pooh-poohed the idea, much to the mayor’s chagrin.

2024-07-19 00:05:14

Just listened to Vicky Farewell’s song ‘Are We Okay?’ for the umpteenth time. ❤️
#vickyfarewell #vickynguyen

2024-07-18 00:34:24

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Wow!!

2024-07-17 20:15:41

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Have you two watched this? I think it’ll float your boats: rescuing diaries and journals
https://youtu.be/X0hi2Q3TAK8?si=TbdKy2nDoyDnf-cY

2024-07-17 20:12:37

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😂

2024-07-15 22:49:04

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Love the pen and paper posts. Please do lots more like this 🤟🏽

2024-07-13 18:25:19

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Uhg, soooo preachy. HODL should have added: god approves of this message.
Same kind of holier than thou moralist that harkens to other people of the same ilk. The Prohibition era comes to mind, for example.
I knew a religious zealot keen on indoctrinating everyone he knew. Used the same rhetoric: you’ll regret it if you don’t, you’ll help grow your religious family, you’ll be surrounded and taken care of by all things church, blah, blah, blah.
🤮

2024-07-02 18:28:28

California’s “Junk Fee” law went into effect yesterday. It included prohibiting restaurants from charging surcharges.
What a good thing for consumers.
But (yes, there’s a “but”), the law was modified just hours before going into effect excluding restaurants from charging hidden junk fee charges like surcharges.
In other words, various Californian restaurant associations paid off the right politicians to change it. You see, restauranteurs that use surcharges are making a killing off it = earning money for no added service or menu value.
Said restauranteurs will argue the surcharge helps pay employees’ health care, or subsidizes tips.
I don’t believe that bullsh*t. And im sad to see our politicians fail us yet again.
#gavinnewsome #junkfeelaw #surcharge #california

2024-06-30 06:16:40

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Looks like the lower left corner says 1901. Kinda hard to see.

2024-06-29 00:49:47

San Diego is the USA’s 7th or 8th largest city, and on the border with massive Tijuana, Mexico.
Yet the transit system is, for the most part, not up to the task.
Most ideas to pay for new transit, real transit, are stymied by NYMBYs who are often able to pressure local politicians to nix transit improvements and enlarging.
Freeways. It’s all we can build, seemingly. Promise to build people a freeway that will fill up with cars every day and they will be happy. They will be “free”.
True freedom is having the choice to drive or ride transit. But continually underfunding transit disincentivizes people from using it.
Where’s the freeway?

2024-06-21 19:24:58

San Diego’s transit system is going through turbulence. City politicians are arguing about fare-skippers on the trolley (light rail) system. It turns out 95% of fare payments are never checked, according to the San Diego Union-Tribune.
And on the rare chance that someone is checked for proof of payment, there is no heavy fine or light fine to pay for fare-skipping. The guilty simply must purchase a face value ticket at the time of control. It’s been so since 2020 when Wokeism and Social Equity movements were at fever pitch in this city.
The result is simple: There is no incentive to buy a fare. Ever.
Some city leaders say fines must be imposed, while others say poor people can’t afford the $2.50 (valid for two hours with transfers if using the local transit card/app).
Here’s the deal. Make the entire system free for everyone or don’t. There’s no practical way for police staff to determine who can and cannot afford to pay. The politicians who want to continue subsidizing the system for poor people are guilty, in my opinion, of reverse economic classism.
#joelacava #sandiego #jennifercampbell #stephenwhitburn #henryfoster #marbivonwilpert #kentlee #raulcampillo #vivianmoreno #seanelorivera

2024-06-14 01:35:19

Any opinions on “hostile architecture”?
Plenty of it to be found in San Diego’s urban neighborhoods.
Critics say it is a cruel way to treat chronically homeless people, many of whom have nowhere to go. They lament that hostile architecture is used to dissuade encampments alongside buildings. Where are the chronically homeless to go, after all?
But it’s never just encampments. It’s about safety for everyone including tax paying citizens. Maybe hostile architecture keeps some chronically homeless from defecating in the nooks and crannies of the exterior of the building where you live. Raw feces pose a danger to everyone. It can carry all kinds of nasty things like hepatitis and other diseases.
Hostile architecture might keep a chronically homeless person from using drugs there; from acting out on severe mental health issues; from not using the area to change clothes during which they completely expose themselves to you and your children as you walk by.
Yes, the chronically homeless issue is complex. I’m all for trying to find solutions.
But. But I also live the reality of being in close proximity to this city’s chronic homeless problem. Hostile architecture works to keep everyone safer.
Period.

2024-06-08 05:27:31

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😲

2024-06-03 22:55:11

Consistently late public transit is self-defeating during a time when American transit agencies try to lure more riders.
I ride transit several times a week. Usually here in San Diego, the bus is often a little bit late. But sometimes you get those real bad days… https://image.nostr.build/bdf4cffc59d1e665117b3ca82443fd35ccd21339c3369ae4062932399b5715b5.jpg

2024-06-02 21:34:46

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I wish I had said that.

2024-06-01 23:35:29

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Glass of wine, fly red eyes when possible, noise canceling ear buds

2024-06-01 23:32:23

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Interstellar, No Country, Gladiator

2024-05-29 17:37:38

The city of San Diego lately has adopted new rules for community planning. One of the newer ones is allowing alternative planning groups to challenge the existing one. The city believes many of the old guard community planning groups aggressively oppose almost all density projects and public transit enhancements to the chagrin of many. It is argued that the old guard community planning groups membership is inclusive to land-owning elite, and off limits to the broader neighborhood population. The logic follows that renters, minorities and density-minded people, who make up a larger percentage of neighborhood population than the elite, have little to no say in how their neighborhood should grow.
I am no fan of much of what the government in San Diego does, but maybe they’re barking up the right tree with this newer policy.

2024-05-26 03:08:09

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I hear you. I humbly suggest watching Michio Kaku or Neil Degrasse Tyson on YouTube. They have a talent for explaining the Kardashev Scale to laypeople like me.
Essentially it’s a classification system with which to measure how powerful and technologically advanced civilizations are/ or can become.

2024-05-26 00:05:47

San Diego city has a budget deficit for the next fiscal year, which I believe starts 1 July. One immediate cut they’ve made is to bus service. For example the airport bus converts to a 1/2 hour schedule after 7pm. Some weekend buses are also 1/2 hour waits now all day.
FREQUENCY is one of the pillars of having a robust transit system. People who have a choice of driving or using the bus will choose the former. No one who has a choice will want to wait 1/2 hour.
…and if the bus is late, which is common, then 1/2 hour becomes 35-40 minute frequency.
#SDMTS #sandiego #transit

2024-05-13 04:22:02

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It’s all about Hollywood. That’s fine if that’s what you want. If you want attention via cosplay, that’s fine too. It’s the perfect place for it. You can even partake in the city streets all around = free.
But otherwise it’s kinda meh

2024-04-29 17:30:14

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Wondering that very question myself

2024-04-28 16:53:31

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Awesome nod to Conan

2024-04-23 19:03:13

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Thanks for sharing

2024-04-11 19:28:10

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Thanks for uploading directly to Damus, Matthew.

2024-04-11 19:26:22

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Sports

2024-04-06 03:38:25

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What? No Lambo?!!!

2024-04-05 00:00:27

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Brutal to watch

2024-04-02 16:58:00

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Best one yet

2024-03-26 00:26:32

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Hope those dice are “set” correctly. They look gorgeous though.

2024-03-12 18:43:45

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Circa November-December the city of San Diego and the Airport Authority (I believe) tried to create an extra lane of traffic on Grape Street.
Grape Street is a major route that diverts airport car traffic to the I-5 freeway. Needless to say people drive on Grape Street at freeway speeds trying to catch all the green lights.
One huge problem with this is that Grape Street runs through Little Italy. It is a very dense neighborhood full of local and tourist foot traffic. Given the city’s goal of attaining ZERO pedestrian deaths, why would the powers that be make Grape Street more dangerous for pedestrians than it already is?
They’ll tell you that it’s necessary to move car traffic in and out of the airport quickly and efficiently. And the pedestrians? Well the pedestrians be damned!
The good news is that public outcry was enough to at least postpone the conversation of the parking lanes to active driving lanes.
I don’t trust the powers that be. What will those weasels do to counter?

2024-02-28 17:29:14

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You were right, the ETFs weren’t priced in

2024-02-26 19:59:15

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🥹

2024-02-26 04:33:52

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🫣

2024-02-24 22:41:00

Crossing the street in the USA…
https://youtu.be/dBXz9vAyPC0?si=5i1QzpHpBY5dw0v7

2024-02-09 20:07:20

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🤟🤘🏽

2024-01-25 20:28:40

1/3 of the sidewalk eaten up by this guy. These types of trucks can be invaluable for construction work, frequent heavy load carries, etc. But otherwise their sheer size make them very impractical in a dense urban setting. https://image.nostr.build/43be48077d92304c68ecbc46f5b6443aacffe212cc81a24c9dddf1e42eb9cc79.jpg

2023-12-24 01:41:45

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Keep up the great work!

2023-08-25 15:51:25

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Sounds like suicidal thoughts. If so, please get “someone” immediate help!

2023-08-13 18:06:45

This picture is intended to pair with the prior post… https://cdn.nostr.build/i/904b0edc0101c9f3d2d3a5c8ce27d4931aab4d522dc75a6ce69520bd488d7ac5.jpg

2023-08-13 18:05:48

San Diego city officials have done a lot over the last half century to revitalize downtown. As you can see in this picture it’s mostly been successful.
One thing that has happened in the city’s evolution is the increase in tourism to downtown (of course) and a change in pedestrian safety.
In this picture you can see what has become quite normal: a car parks in a crosswalk by a hotel. Add to this drivers driving way too fast on local streets, and the plague of eScooters flying down sidewalks, and you get a recipe for disaster.
As city center’s re-urbanize city planners and politicians must remember one of the keys that make vibrant downtown neighborhoods great: walkability and bicycle-ability.

2023-08-07 16:52:11

Grossmont Center mall in La Mesa, CA is not far from San Diego.
Look at all this asphalt. A few times a year it fills up, but most days a lot of it is empty and baking in the sun.
So why not build dense and affordable housing here? The mall could serve as a “downtown”. Bus and light rail is nearby. https://cdn.nostr.build/i/ce44977ad0dc06e0face72093ec5d60cb341e0720ac85450faad546a6a3c6916.jpg

2023-08-02 15:10:42

Many cities believe they must have a gimmick to attract tourists.
One such rouse the city of San Diego uses is it’s “world famous “ zoo.
There are many rubs to this topic but one that is particularly evil is a century-old mill tax instituted for maintenance of the zoo. Nowadays the amount is .05 cents for every hundred dollars worth of real estate value a landowner has.
The median home price in San Diego is in the high hundreds of thousands.
The local newspaper San Diego Union Tribune reported on June 27, 2022 that the zoo was raking in almost $18 million dollars with this sneaky tax.
The paper also reported that although most citizens don’t hold zoo passes they still have to pay. They cannot opt out. Even if anyone of them is morally against the imprisoning of animals. Tax payers don’t even get a discount on entry tickets.

2023-07-17 16:06:44

Several San Diego neighborhoods are pressing the city to introduce traffic calming measures to induce drivers to slow down.
After all the city has a zero pedestrian death goal by 2025!!!!
Over the recent years San Diego city has been listening to various concerned neighborhood groups about unsafe driving, although not always acting quickly. Bureaucracies are slow and projects are expensive.
But why not start meaningful traffic calming measures sooner? There are some that could be instituted quickly with low cost: turn several stop lighted intersections into red light blinking four way stops. Or change the timing of the stop lights so that they don’t encourage drivers to speed to catch the next green light.
The good news is that the city has been slowly but surely reducing several 3 lane roads to 2 lane roads, creating roundabouts, creating a pedestrian zone in a major tourist area downtown, and set up pedestrian crossing lights on a few busy streets.
In conclusion, I acknowledge we are a suburb nation that needs cars. But we are interested again in our urban city cores. The former has conditioned us to drive a lot, and quickly. The latter encourages walking, public transit and less car use over all.

We will always drive too fast.
It’s crazy that an average car is capable of being driven at 80 mph, or 100 mph, or (for some) 160 mph.
But in neighborhoods the speed limit is often 25 mph or slower.

2023-07-11 00:04:19

Problems linked to chronic homelessness in downtown has banded together several business owners in a particularly hard hit area. They are threatening to sue the city if the city doesn’t start enforcing laws on the books to try and prevent homeless-linked crime happening on their doorsteps.
They claim there’s legal precedent from a similar situation in Phoenix.

2023-07-01 01:11:29

This burned-out shell was formerly a church called God’s Extended Hand, and mostly served the chronically homeless.
Located in downtown San Diego it’s right on the edge of where recently built high rises meet utter squalor.
The age-old question arises then on to citify the area. Where will the chronically homeless go?
#sandiego #eastvillage https://nostr.build/i/f861fcfd971a9a258410ac9e15c740718d28a22af87da1e256e3d692f3f7b8ab.jpg

2023-07-01 01:07:09

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Is the same true for when trad media uses term “left”?

2023-06-30 19:50:45

I use public transportation, having given up my car. My family is a one-car family.
No regrets over it.
But I won’t lie, when city buses are constantly late it does start to suck.

2023-06-27 20:08:32

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Thought this 2020 article interesting as it pertains to your question
https://www.bustle.com/p/can-i-donate-to-a-political-candidate-anonymously-the-fec-has-strict-rules-17228409

2023-06-22 00:16:53

Tijuana and San Diego are border-mates. I feel like Tijuana has always felt more urban than San Diego, at least since I can remember stretching back to the 1990s. But San Diego has been growing up in so many ways especially over the last 25 years. https://nostr.build/i/366683da9ec967dae8cf6c7dc7f1976cd192ddbff3cc04450196a5d7c6c6f196.jpg

2023-06-12 01:46:42

This Tuesday the San Diego City Council will vote on a proposal to disallow most homeless encampments on city sidewalks. The city will -as an alternative- mandate those in violation move to one of two city-owned properties where encampments are legal.

2023-06-09 01:17:43

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Haha you almost fooled me that you exposed your seed phrase!!! 😂

2023-06-06 17:42:05

Walkable cities cannot be replete with one-way three-lane streets. Drivers typically see such streets as an extension of the highway or freeway.
Add to this that so many American city urban centers are going through (or hope to) a renaissance. That necessarily means growing pedestrian activity.
But it also means coming to terms with post-WWII traffic design. People in crosswalks and speeding cars on wide one-way streets don’t mix.
I’m delighted to see San Diego converting several downtown roadways from three to two lanes. It’s not perfect but it’s a start.

2023-06-04 01:38:22

#sandiego #rocknrollmarathon
The San Diego rock n roll marathon is tomorrow. But what a sh*t show it is now, the night before. The idiots who put on the spectacle invested zero dollars into traffic control.
It’s literally taking 15 minutes to drive one block in parts of downtown due to all the road closures for the marathon. In one of the densest areas, Little Italy, residents can’t get home. Angry drivers are road raging, and traffic is utterly snarled.
Nice job, Rock n Roll Marathon people.

2023-05-31 22:55:24

The Helm building on Front at Beech, downtown San Diego completed around April 2023. The San Diego Housing Commission partnered with the developers given the building has 77 affordable rental apartments for low-income families and individuals.
The block itself is home to two aging single room occupancy hotels, some of the very last of their kind in the area. I should emphasize that super expensive Little Italy is right next door.
I for one am glad to see such a mix of different people from different backgrounds living in and enjoying the same amenities city life has to offer.
Lastly, I would be remiss to not mention the Hughes Marino building also pictured. The man was at the center of a high-level political intrigue in the city, scraping together real estate deals for San Diego. He made sure he got paid around $10M in an opaque manner that reeked of cronyism. He was ultimately charged with a felony or two, but ended up pleading guilty to a misdemeanor. Another controversy in itself. https://nostr.build/i/f6c5649fc09ca1de6c7191f9cfe5f8d2951890e568aaf54b06f73433446f1779.jpg

2023-05-31 18:38:15

Transit corridors in San Diego are popping up with greater frequency than I can remember. This picture of intersection of El Cajon Blvd and Park Blvd is an example of the densification of a center city neighborhood along extremely busy stroads. Fortunately there are several bus lines that service the area. Even better is that the local neighborhoods have lots to do within walking distance.
The city has allowed for developers to build denser buildings along transit corridors (or even within 15 minutes’ walk of a transit/bus station) without having to build or include lots of parking. Parking spaces, especially the underground variety are really expensive, and said costs ate passed on to renters.
Hopefully the lack of parking spaces within these new buildings will incentivize walking and transit use.
Lastly, I must confess the developer of the pictured building opted to build underground parking. You win some you lose some. https://nostr.build/i/13863a1a0d19e01c7f3a946d8104cdae9c50419506b85f7dcefc160df5fecf09.jpg

2023-05-30 01:39:21

Citifying cities in the good ol’ USA. That’s what I advocate. My story is one of watching the urbanization of San Diego, California. I’ve watched this place change from smalls-ville to something else.
That’s the raison d’être for my Damus feed; to comment on the changes to my beloved city undergoing citification.
If you’re into cities, city planning, public transportation, et cetera then join me. https://nostr.build/i/8b306dc8908e941712c7627e838c67c8f153f86a664a68723fb136c8b264e9bb.jpg