Oceanside Traffic Plan Public Comment and Review Meeting

I went to a public comment meeting tonight regarding the update to the "Circulation Plan" which is basically the transportation plan for the city with predictions out to 2030. In case any of you are interested, the city is still acting as though the Rancho del Oro/SR78 interchange is going to be built. Also, the lady that owns the Marron Adobe down in the valley below the 78 was there. She's huge. Some guy also urged the city to work with Carlsbad to extend Cannon Rd south to connect up with ECR (?). All of the objections were voiced by local neighborhood activists.

A quick note about the traffic light at Cameo and RdO. Apparently it was put in without the proper procedures and a couple of the neighborhood activists demanded it be removed since it looks like the first tendrils of building the offramp.

By the way, I thought they were going to present the plan tonight but no, the assumption from the planners and was that everyone had already read it, which I had not, so I have to acquire it from the city and then take a look. You guys might want to, as well.

I can tell you this, though, as I mentioned RdO/78 is still on the table, widening College Blvd to 6 lanes up to Mission Ave is on the books (with an option for a 6 lane/4 lane hybrid, 6 lanes up to Olive St) but I have no idea how they're gonna do that past Oceanside Blvd to be honest, some connecting work in the north east area where the agriculture and horses are and of course the legendary I5/78 interchange improvement, something that has been on the books since the late 70's early 80's.

So basically the plan reflects a city that is still developing but didn't really plan correctly back when this part of town was still rolling hills and RdO was created as a residential street, not a throughway between 78 and 76 plus assumes that the only good transportation solutions are single occupancy single trip automobiles, which in 20 years will seem quaint, I'm sure.

I also had the "honor" of meeting Councilman Jack Feller, who in his chit chat with me let it be known he was quite unimpressed with the peoples' objections to the plan. Jerry Kern, Esther Sanchez and Jim Woods were also there.