San Diegans Urged to Get on the Bus

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Published June 9, 2008 at 12:19 PM PDT

This story was published more than 16 years ago.

The redevelopment of San Diego's downtown core has been a shining example for the country. But it's still a downtown that people expect to navigate by car, even as the city core continues to grow in p

Tom Fudge: Getting around San Diego is a major consideration in urban design. And one environmental group called SOFAR didn't think the city was giving it enough thought in the Downtown Community Plan. The group, whose full name is Save Our Forests and Ranchlands, argued the downtown plan forsaw continuing growth. But it didn't have a vision for how to get people in and out of central San Diego, aside from using cars. Would downtown become one huge parking lot? Messages were exchanged. Lawyers called lawyers. In the end, there was no SOFAR lawsuit, but the city did agree to come up with a new transportation plan.

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George Hazel, transit and urban development consultant and president of MRC McLean Hazel. He's co-author of the book Making Cities Work , and he's advising the Centre City Development Corporation on it's Downtown San Diego Community Plan.