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Peters Decries Resurrected Effort to Put Bridge Over Peñasquitos Canyon

On December 16, 2003 Councilman Scott Peters held a press conference with Mike Kelly with Friends of the Los Penasquitos Canyon Preserve, Bruce Reznick with San Diego Baykeeper, Mel Hinton with San Diego Audubon Society, and members of the Park Village Elementary School PTA to denounce a resurrected proposal for a bridge across the Los Penasquitos Canyon Reserve at Camino Del Sur.

The San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG) has started the North / South Transportation Corridor Study to find freeway alternatives. One proposal being studied resurrects a project rejected 10 years ago that would have put a bridge across the Los Peñasquitos Canyon Preserve at Camino Ruiz. The proposal has been rejected twice by community and government leaders as too damaging to the community and to the environment of the Los Peñasquitos Canyon Preserve. The bridge was removed from the Rancho Peñasquitos and Mira Mesa Community Plans in 1992. The bridge was again explored in 1999 by the City of San Diego’s Land Use & Housing Committee which rejected the idea on a unanimous vote.

Councilman Peters questions why regional transportation planning money is being spent on a frivolous study that will end in no progress. At the press conference Councilman Peters said, "I suggest that SANDAG stop looking to the past and start looking to the future, which means public transportation, completing the roads we already have on the books, and better management of traffic signals, freeway ramps, and other existing circulation infrastructure. Why waste precious resources on a study that will sit on a shelf and gather dust?"

Councilman Peters has vowed to work with community leaders and the environmental community to make sure that this proposal is stopped.

Read Councilman Peter's Memo to SANDAG (PDF: 70K)