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A VISION FOR SAN DIEGO

High speed, clean, visually pleasant transport for both commuter and tourist is key to maintaining San Diego's unique ambiance with its growing neighborhood and core city populations, and its many widespread entertainment venues. To ensure that commuting obsolescence doesn't inhibit availability the city must move into a twenty first century transportation system. To propose moving San Diego into twenty first century commuting, one must have a general plan of why, how and where it might best serve the City in solving problems existing or on the immediate horizon. What problems could it best solve? Where would it start? Where should it go? How does it compare to alternatives? Who has experience with it? Why monorail? What would it cost?

Trolley transport was in use in San Diego before the start of the 20th century. Autos and bus transport started soon after the 20th century began. They have been in conflict ever since. San Diego commuters in bus or auto might often wonder by 1920 if travel from North Park to downtown was any slower. Trolleys and light-rail were elevated in cities in this country where buildings constrained other means to accommodate traffic growth. The resulting massive support structures with materials and construction capabilities of that period and heavy noisy trains became the "albatross"  negatives cited by opponents against subsequent elevated commuter systems planning. Yhey ignore  hundred years of advancing technology since the elevateds were constructed.

Alternative elevated monorail commuting was first developed in 1904 in Wuppertal Germany and still is in daily operation. Modern automated single beam monorail guideway systems with light weight electrically powered, rubber tire trains represent the quietest, most environmentally friendly transportation systems for twenty first century growth. They are people-friendly in residential areas through which they are routed. They have a small footprint and a minimum visual shadow on surface below. They do not divide communities. They are a prime choice for transport over environmentally sensitive areas otherwise not suitable for freeways or light rail.

This web site is intended to provide a basic understanding of monorails and a challenge for the forward thinking leaders who have shown in the past (except for airports) that San Diego can be America's Finest City by leading this country into 21st century transportation. Turn a vision into reality. The PLAN presents this visionary perspective of a system for San Diego that addresses immediate and growing commuter traffic and parking problems. It defines a planned segment by segment monorail system implementation that can ensure cost effective relief from those problems.

The Systems Map shows a system that connects key areas of the city into a high speed twenty first century transportation network not inhibited by existing structures or geographical features  that is only available to the city by monorail technology. All routes are arguably doable. The presently proposed system does not recognize the rapid growth in Chula Vista. A route to be looked at will be to any new hotel complex in Chula Vista. The inland areas are all virtually inaccessible with surface level mass transit. Changing conditions may revise priorities such as the airport to embarcadero segment, or a more direct airport to Mission Bay off-site parking. Some present challenges that require creative thinking to accomplish, but all are possible. There are also proposals for longer distance routes to North County.

To explore the PLAN  click here.

updated:  6-14-08