Transit San Diego

12/09/2021

Don't get distracted by this manufactured shouting match over road usage fees, which require additional legislation and wouldn't be implemented until the 2030s.

San Diego faces a triple emergency: a climate crisis, a housing crisis, and an ecological crisis all at once. We need to change the way we’ve done things in this county, and we need to do it now.

By Duncan McFetridge: SANDAG Board Needs to Look Beyond Road Use Charge Dustup

San Diego faces a triple emergency: a climate crisis, a housing crisis, and an ecological crisis all at once. We need to change the way we’ve done things in this county, and we need to do it now.

02/03/2021

The Fake Plan for Alpine has major problems: auto-based sprawl at the expense of the Cleveland National Forest.

The County’s Alpine Plan is a contradiction in terms just like all the other county-wide sprawl projects. But this one is really crazy. The so-called project goal of ‘community vitality’ actually promotes auto based sprawl at the expense of vital forest lands which the people voted overwhelmingly to protect in the 1993 Forest Initiative.

Our comment letter to the County of San Diego outlines the flaws in the fake plans for Alpine:

tinyurl.com/AlpineFeb32021

09/11/2020

We recently filed a lawsuit with Coastal Environmental Rights Foundation against San Diego County's implementation plan for Senate Bill 743. Read the press release here:

For Immediate Release – September 9, 2020 Contacts: Duncan McFetridge, Cleveland National Forest Foundation, Tel: (619) 445-9638 Email: [email protected] Sara Kent, Coastal Environmental Rights Foundation, Tel: (619) 494-1025 Email: [email protected] Kevin Bundy, Shute Mihaly & Weinberger LLP, ...

05/15/2020

Big news!!

04/10/2020

THERE IS HOPE: right now we have the opportunity to remake our economy and our environment to benefit the health, safety and prosperity of all San Diegans.

Cleveland National Forest Foundation is joining organizations from throughout our region to call for a .

Read more: tinyurl.com/GNDRecLetter

THERE IS HOPE: right now we have the opportunity to remake our economy and our environment to benefit the health, safety and prosperity of all San Diegans.

CNFF is joining organizations from throughout our region to call for a .

Read more: tinyurl.com/GNDRecLetter

01/27/2020

10/25/2019

Thank you Jack Shu for talking to K**I News to advocate for 5 Big Moves at SANDAG without watering it down by widening freeways.

SAN DIEGO (K**I) – The Cleveland National Forest Foundation sent a letter to SANDAG officials warning them to proceed with caution before doing anything rash in regards to their transit plans. Jack Shu, President of the Cleveland National Forest Foundation was in studio to tell us more about what ...

09/26/2019

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08/26/2019

Students for transit:

If you have ever used the San Diego Metropolitan Transit System, you know how awful it is. Buses and trolleys are scheduled to run every 15 minutes and have a tendency to run late. Many of the stops and stations are located far away from one another in isolated, inconvenient areas. There isn’t eve...

06/07/2019

"Massive Buddha statue carved into granite in East County."

Thank you 10News for highlighting the work of Duncan McFetridge.

https://www.10news.com/news/local-news/massive-buddha-statue-carved-into-granite-in-east-county

05/15/2019

"He said all the region’s previous plans – including the one in place today – didn’t really do anything to reduce emissions, he said. They used modeling to demonstrate compliance, but really perpetuated the car-based status quo."

By design or accident, Hasan Ikhrata is remaking the role of SANDAG director, from behind-the-scenes consensus-builder to bold iconoclast. But the elected leaders who support his plan have not had his back as he faces pushback from North County and East County politicians.

02/16/2019

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In President Donald Trump's world, Democrats are after your cars and want to force everyone onto trains.