LA Times: Climate change prevention is losing to sprawl in San Diego County

The San Diego plan ignores restraints on sprawl “in favor of providing an easy solution for developers that kicks the can down the road and saddles a future generation of Californians with the cost of climate change,” Becerra’s office wrote in the filing.

https://www.climateactioncampaign.org/2019/11/15/la-times-climate-change-prevention-is-losing-to-sprawl-in-san-diego-county/ 

Family saves $84,000 riding bike and taking buses

There are a number of reasons that transit SE likes to support and use transit:

• Traffic congestion reduction (buses move far more people than the typically single occupant cars common in the US)
• Cost savings
• Reduced environmental impact
• Social unity / exposure
• Etc

On the cost savings front we estimated that over the last 10 years we saw approximately $84,000 of savings for our family.

• $200 per month parking x 10 years = $24,000 (Comparison from co-workers)
• $6000 per year vehicle cost x 10 = $60,000 (About 1/3 less than the average cost per year from AAA since Cali is hella expensive but we’re cheap. Results may vary.)

https://bikesd.org/voices/10-years-riding-the-bus-84000-saved/ 

One more lane will fix it

1970: One more lane will fix it.
1980: One more lane will fix it.
1990: One more lane will fix it.
2000: One more lane will fix it.
2010: One more lane will fix it.
2020: ?pic.twitter.com/NjS1IPORG2
via @avelezig

— Urban Planning & Mobility (@urbanthoughts11) November 4, 2019