They need to cut out the water quality and beach crap and focus on transit. I heard that MTS operates on 1/6th a cent sales tax, with a fare box recovery ratio of around 40%, whereas, SANDAG builds broken projects using our gas tax.
Maybe if we funded bus and commuter services, we call could get out of our cars/bikes/etc. Forget building new highways and trolley lines. Just dedicate a lane on the fwy to bus service. Run it frequent and to a bunch of different destinations.