{"id":5897,"date":"2022-01-12T10:04:45","date_gmt":"2022-01-12T10:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/?p=5897"},"modified":"2022-01-12T10:04:45","modified_gmt":"2022-01-12T10:04:45","slug":"bidding-underground-light-link-for-san-diego-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/?p=5897","title":{"rendered":"Bidding Underground Light Link for San Diego Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By the expected expense of $1\u00b75bn to $2bn, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sdmts.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Diego\u2019s Metropolitan Transit System<\/a> board has specified that a light rail expansion to the city\u2019s international airport is possible and could be constructed in the coming 10 years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to Mott MacDonald&#8217;s initial feasibility study, an elevated route or two underground options linking to the available Green and Blue lines near Hawthorn Street, which are almost 2\u00b76 km far from the airport terminal, are the best plans for this purpose. The opt of MTS was the underground options in order to more extensions, and will now seek federal and state grants for the project.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"disp[lay: block; margin: auto;\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Metro-Line-Map-to-San-Diego-Airport.jpg\" alt=\"Metro Line Map to San Diego Airport\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Point Loma, Liberty Station, Sports Arena, and beach communities, are the probable subsets of the airport&#8217;s development. Additionally, providing a straight service from the airport to the future Bayfront convention center in Chula Vista while its estimated journey time is14 min, is possible in this scheme.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">MTS board Chair Nathan Fletcher said: &#8220;San Diegans have always wanted a Trolley connection to the airport and now is the time to move forward. The feasibility study findings demonstrate a Trolley to the airport is possible and while we have a way to go in planning, stakeholder engagement, and execution, there is a unique opportunity to further our reputation as a world-class region by offering the fastest rail connection in the United States between an airport and convention center. Just like the recent Trolley extension to UC San Diego, the VA Medical Center, and UTC, this would be yet another game-changer for San Diego.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By the expected expense of $1\u00b75bn to $2bn, the San Diego\u2019s Metropolitan Transit System board has specified that a light rail expansion to the city\u2019s international airport is possible and could be constructed in the coming 10 years. According to Mott MacDonald&#8217;s initial feasibility study, an elevated route or two underground options linking to the available Green and Blue lines near Hawthorn Street, which are almost 2\u00b76 km far from the airport terminal, are the best plans for this purpose. The opt of MTS was the underground options in order to more extensions, and will now seek federal and state [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5900,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,43],"tags":[1481,1482,47,1483,229],"class_list":["post-5897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-project-show-case","tag-metropolitan-transit-system","tag-san-diego-airport","tag-tunneling","tag-underground-light-link","tag-us","post--single"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}