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San Diego Plans Extension to Its Trolley Network, Mostly Skipping Over Inner City

San Diego Future Transit Plans Map

» Metropolitan Transit System will nominate Mid-Coast Corridor Trolley Extension for federal New Start funding, but it has limited other future routes to bus rapid transit.

You would think, with an ideal climate year-round, that San Diego would be one of the nation’s most livable cities for pedestrians and transit users. What is the good excuse for being stuck in the car when the weather’s perfect?

Yet San Diego remains one of the nation’s sprawl capitals, with 85% of the population using private automobiles to get to work every day and only four percent riding transit. That’s in spite of a

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Upcoming Transit Line Openings: 2012

Early
  • ▶ Sacramento Green Line to the River District LRT
March
  • ▶ Las Vegas Sahara Corridor BRT
April
  • ▶ 23: Rhode Island Wickford Junction Extension CR
  • ▶ 28: Los Angeles Expo Line Phase 1A LRT
Spring
  • ▶ Boston Fitchburg Line Extension CR
June
  • ▶ Los Angeles Expo Line Phase 1B LRT
  • ▶ New Orleans Loyola/UPT Streetcar
July
  • ▶ 30: Dallas Orange Line Phase II LRT
Summer
  • ▶ Los Angeles Orange Line Canoga Extension BRT
  • ▶ Miami Airport Link Metro
  • ▶ New York Nostrand/Rogers BRT
  • ▶ San Antonio Via Primo BRT
September
  • ▶ 21: Portland Streetcar Loop
October
  • ▶ Seattle Sounder Lakewood Extension CR
Fall
  • ▶ Calgary Northeast Line Extension LRT
  • ▶ Chicago Jeffery Corridor BRT
  • ▶ Los Angeles El Monte Transit Center
  • ▶ Seattle RapidRide C & D Lines BRT
  • ▶ Twin Cities Cedar Avenue BRT
December
  • ▶ Dallas Blue Line Extension LRT
  • ▶ 3: Dallas Orange Line Phase II LRT
  • ▶ 10: Salt Lake FrontRunner South CR
  • ▶ Montréal Train de l'Est CR

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