ABOUT US

sdmonorail.com and sandiegomonorail.com are web sites of a thirty five year North County resident in Oceanside and Solana Beach, and a now six year resident of the San Diego Marina district. He held a California Mechanical Engineer registration for forty four years, and held senior management design and manufacturing positions in aircraft, missiles, spacecraft, navy ships and military electronics .

He has watched San Diego grow and the freeways and mass transit expand with that growth, but seemingly always behind the curve. With the growth control efforts and building costs effectively forcing residential developments farther and farther from the core city, freeway expansion has only been sufficient to increase the size of the space on which the commuter's morning traffic battle takes place. Added freeway lanes quickly become clogged with commuters who moved to the freeway end residential developments. The "freeway only" transit expansions lured working families to their extremes for the lower cost homes. Now with gas over $4.00 and still rising, they are trapped in an economic conundrum.

Neighborhood surface street improvements serve only to increase more freeway commuter traffic diversion through the residential neighborhoods. High density residential growth in Downtown, East Village and Uptown, combined with completion of Petco Park and an expanded Convention Center have added a new dimension to traffic on nearby neighborhood surface streets and to central areas parking problems. There is a better way than the proposed Regent's Road bridge to unload University area commuting.

The Engineer believes now is the time for San Diego to start using twenty-first century commuter transportation technology to solve its traffic problems and bring its many quality of life assets closer together. The cost of oil and energy as a whole have reached a point that private venture investors should see the potential of a transit system as a product with an anxious customer and a city government with traffic problems for which it cannot finance solutions. The recently completed privately financed toll road is reported to already headed for being a profitable venture. The monorail system has a added positive in that a majority of the system would not involve imminent domain problems and delays.

It is the purpose of this web site to present proposals, observations, opinions and references that will hopefully familiarize and interest those who have the vision to see a need and when our transportation needs are being addressed, can determine how, or if, San Diego's future commute will be moving into technology provided by this new century.

SANDAG take note.

updated:  June 17, 2008