[quote=6packscaredy] … we were down in san diego this weekend and I was thinking, san diego kinda sucks in many ways. just looking around. gritty and gross…no disrespect, Imean but people’s houses are hanging over major thoroughfares. it just seems sort of desperate, crowded, packed and too much. but that’s justa highly subjective viewpoitn of one dude at one distinct moment of life.[/quote]
scaredy, not sure where you were in SD, but when the houses you were looking at were built, the “thoroughfares” they “hung over” likely weren’t even a twinkle in any city planner’s eye for decades afterwards. Most were likely two-lane roads surrounded by orchards and canyons.
“Temecula” doesn’t have this problem because it is too new. I remember leaving at 4:00 am on weekends to drive up to Big Bear to go skiing and there being only ONE exit in the Temecula area, “Rancho California Rd” which had ONE gas station/mini mart and ONE fast-food joint on its dead end (west side of SR-395/I-15). That was the ONLY exit for miles around.
The majority of Temecula thoroughfares were partially or completely built by private developers with MR bonds as a condition of their obtaining subdivision permits. Thus, these thoroughfares were already in place and as wide as they were going to be at the time they were built.
Not so in SD. No one knew in 1930, 1947 or or 1956 how many freeways SD would need in the year 2000 and no one at that time had any idea that subsequent City Councils and County Boards of Supervisors would become greedy enough to “sell out” nearly the entire region to Big Development (with the assistance of MR bonds) and thus create a “need” for several more freeways.
Parts of SD undoubtedly look a bit “gritty” to a visitor because there are way too many people using those thoroughfares who do not reside anywhere near them. They are using them to commute on and do their errands on because the local freeways are frequently clogged … yes even on the weekends :=0
If you were a LL on one of these “gritty” SD thoroughfares, you wouldn’t spend to much fixing up your house either as you wouldn’t be able to recover enough monthly rent to warrant spending the money, due to the level of traffic in front of the house.
Because of these stupid, short-sighted decisions by its PTB, the “lustre” wore off of “America’s Finest City” long ago, IMO. It’s a dirty shame as there will never be another SD.
I drove thru TV recently (during rush hour) and I-215 was at nearly a standstill going both ways for about an hour. It now appears to be eight lanes wide in both directions, incl the commuter lane(s).
scaredy, you and your brethren Piggs residing in TV have also been sold a bill of goods by your PTB, IMHO. Why don’t you get back to us in another 30-40 yrs (if you and I are still around, lol) and tell us how TV’s infrastructure and quality-of-life is faring 🙂
