Comments on: Railroad remains a barrier http://thecoastnews.com/2009/10/railroad-remains-a-barrier/ Making Waves in Your Neighborhood Wed, 22 May 2013 04:51:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: TanyaBrooking http://thecoastnews.com/2009/10/railroad-remains-a-barrier/comment-page-1/#comment-6875 TanyaBrooking Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:44:11 +0000 http://thecoastnews.com/?p=38979#comment-6875 Five million PER TUNNEL??? Councilman Stokes: are you unaware of the condition of the California budget? Rumor has it we are broke, maybe you’ve heard. Remaining “optimistic” that the state is going to buck up $4 million (I assume this is $4m PER tunnel)is ludicrous, especially while the state gives IOU’s to Calif taxpayers instead of tax refunds, cuts resources to state parks, under-funds schools, etc etc.

Councilwoman Barth: stick to your guns! San Clemente has a good thing going. Let’s follow suit.

By the way, how much has already been spent on improving the 101 and Vulcan? Does it make any fiscal sense at all to consider tearing up either side of the tracks to make underground corridors after the improvements that have already been made and more set to come?

]]> By: Brian Gulino http://thecoastnews.com/2009/10/railroad-remains-a-barrier/comment-page-1/#comment-6874 Brian Gulino Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:52:38 +0000 http://thecoastnews.com/?p=38979#comment-6874 The City of Encinitas is currently considering building pedestrian tunnels to go under the railroad tracks in order for pedestrians to be able to walk to the beach. Tunnels cost 5 million each, the City wants three of them. Above ground crossings are much cheaper but nobody can figure out how to make them safe.

Evidently the possibility that a pedestrian will linger on the tracks after the gates go down and the bells start ringing for 3 minutes, and then get hit by a train presents a great a risk to our citizens. I think Hansen’s can help us with this.
Hansen’s has a web cam up right now where you can check out Cardiff Reef at any hour of the day or night. See this at: http://hansensurf.com/community/Surfer-Web-Cam-San-Diego-Cardiff-Reef.html. Surely Hansen’s could put up more web cams to check out the pedestrian crossings? Then we need to get the engineers web browsers which show the crossings. Probably some modification of the technology would be necessary, hopefully this would cost less than a five million dollar tunnel.

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