[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

PING!

[Flick Lives]

...a nonprofit group led by local architects and urban planners, is proposing that the city build bridge decks, often called freeway lids...

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“Lids” AKA Biden bypass

[Olog-hai]

Some communities don’t need to be “reunited”.

This is central planning by a bunch of lawyers.

[dainbramaged]

Some loons in Seattle were yapping about something similar recently, but they likely lost their train of thought by now.
I went to Balboa Park about 50 years ago to see a free concert by Commander Cody and his Lost Planet Airmen. San Diego was a fun town back then.

[DesertRhino]

Yeah, so they can pancake when earthquakes hit. Any other bright ideas?

[Jonny7797]

The root cause of this effort to unite communities (build bridges) is all the illegals running across freeways in San Diego.

The signs warning drivers, which is a picture of a woman running with a child who is flying behind her, are all over the county.

F’ing ridiculous and one of the reasons I got the hell out of there.

[Chewbarkah]

Sounds like an ideal way to:
1) Spends hundreds of billion$ on projects with no measurable economic benefit other than the construction itself;
2) Cause massive traffic congestion for decades during construction;
3) Kills tens of thousands or more when the next earthquake causes the lids to collapse. Have the proponents heard about “earthquakes”?

[bk1000]

Make it easier for rival gangs to reach out to each other.

Stop listening to the “poor me” racial BS. It is just BS. All of it.

[fidelis]

My once beautiful San Diego is now overrun by the homeless and congested, shabby streets lined with trash. Adding of community park-like areas near freeways will quickly become a magnet for homeless and criminal elements including gangs. Terrible idea.

[Robert357]

“....The nation's interstate highway construction boom in the 1950s and 60s created a vast network of roadways that ultimately allowed people to drive throughout the country with greater ease and efficiency. ....”

Anyone else read some of the stories about the Miami Condo complex built in the 1980’s that collapsed recently and the articles that said modern rebar reinforced concrete design can have a very limited life if the rebar starts to rust?

One article talked about the financial time-bomb of aging reinforced concrete used on large buildings, bridges, freeways, etc.

Now we have another group that wants to add more infrastructure that will have a finite like just so people can walk their dogs and meet?

I don't think this is a good idea or use of scarce taxpayer dollars.

[oldvirginian]

They should just build walkways across the interstate like Michigan did in some places. Not big enough for a park but wide enough for a lot of foot traffic across. Cheaper and more efficient....oh, those two words make it a no-go.

[kvanbrunt2]

I don’t recall how wide i5 is but one of them there freeways was six lanes wide i think both ways. maybe a football field wide. try reconnecting that.