IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGY
The Quickway Proposal is designed to be implemented in phases. It begins creating a flexible infrastructure--Quickways--located where a lot of people could save a lot of time. This urban network, with its connection to major employment centers, forms the basis for future Quickway projects.
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Mid-Coast
Supportive Projects
Connecting the Beach Communities to the Trolley and the Urban Core
Sails to Trails:
Deploying Transit for a Greener Community
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PHASE I: SAN DIEGO CONNECTED
San Diego Connected is a $2.2 billion proposal designed to speed people to and from the Mid-Coast Trolley link under construction, as well as connect many origins with destinations within the broader urban core of the region. Key features include:
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About 5 1/2 miles of grade-separated transitways (Quickways).
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Bicycle "greenways" designed with gentle slopes making bicycle commuting far more feasible and safe.
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The first several streetcar (both rail and rubber-tired) routes in the region, two of which focus on North Park.
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Several new "SuperStations," where future express routes will stop.
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An extension of Balboa Park over the I-5 freeway, connecting with Downtown.
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Rebuilt "transit streets": 6th Avenue Downtown and 30th Street in North Park.
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Environmental restoration and landscaping for both Cabrillo Canyon (Balboa Park/163) and Washington Canyon.
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Routes linking National City and Chula Vista with destinations in the Urban Core and Kearny Mesa.
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New Airport express route linking La Mesa with the urban core.
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Rapid transit links to the Airport from both Downtown and Uptown.
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PHASE II: MID-COAST SUPPORTIVE PROJECTS
The Mid-Coast Supportive Projects consist of infrastructure targeting the Balboa, Morena / Lind Vista, and Old Town stations, along with a set of additional new electric Rapid Bus routes and enhanced arterial stations to effectively tie the beach communities to the Trolley as well as the urban core. These projects slash transit travel time.
The Mid-Coast Supportive Projects, together with the San Diego Connect transit projects, create a core infrastructure designed to speed people to and from key light rail stations, amplifying our investments in the Trolley. As the infrastructure is flexible, it is designed to support a new generation of autonomous vehicles and other evolving technologies.
In addition to serving the Trolley, the Quickway Proposal makes it way easier to travel around the core of the region by transit.
AREAS BENEFITED:
Pacific Beach | Mission Beach | Ocean Beach
The Airport | SeaWorld | Valley View Casino Center
The Midway District | Point Loma
Greater Uptown | Greater North Park | City Heights
Mission Valley | USD | Linda Vista | Morena | Old Town
Downtown | Balboa Park | Golden Hill,
WITH DEEP CONNECTIONS INTO:
National City | Chula Vista | Mesa College
the Sharp/Childrens' Hospital District
These projects also put infrastructure where large-scale development is planned or happening, helping mitigate the impact of these projects on local roads and traffic safety and actually improving local quality of life.
A lot of people could get about with a system like this. As the system grows, it begins to support a MetroXpress network, routes that serve a community then run express to key destinations, stopping only at SuperStations (the dark circles). These routes make transit very competitive with driving, making transit a real option for many more people, especially those going to areas where parking is difficult (which describes many of the areas this plan serves)..
Preserving Paradise, the first discussion paper in the Paradise Project Series, has more detail on these projects and how they perform compared to transit today and planned.
PHASE III: SAILS TO TRAILS
Sails to Trails is a demonstration of how the Quickway Proposal is design to work with other infrastructure projects and market forces to help generate the funding to build and run the system.
Sails to Trails is available at Amazon.com. We hope to have a free Kindle version available by end of Summer 2018. A detailed fact sheet is being prepared for this site.
Sails to Trails demonstrates how a transit project can be leveraged to create over 70 acres of parkland in addition to the kind of city that Millennials will want to live in.