San Diego's "Financial Free Fall"

[Encinitan]

Originally Posted by Donna7

I'm coming to San Diego next week and will be there almost one week. I'll have 3 days for looking around N. County and the rest of the week for business which is downtown SD. I am seriously going to compare and contrast the so-called bad roads, "insane prices" of everything, etc. to this grey Arctic Tundra called NE OH. I will see for my own eyes what's going on. I'm not going to the tourist spots, I'm going to be checking out things that are important to me and my family, compare and contrast. I don't doubt that SD is going downhill since there's a budget crunch, but coming from where I'm coming from, it might not be that bad. I'll post my findings when I get back.

I suspect you'll be pleasantly surprised by your time in San Diego, but I'll wait to read your report. Hope you enjoy your visit.

[Oerdin]

Originally Posted by 1AngryTaxPayer

I bet I can win that one since I ride daily. I know some that would fold a truck tire if you hit em. Heck some freeways are like that. 52 at Convoy is a roller coaster again and they "fix" it the same way each time which lasts about 5 years.

Some roads are so warn you think you are on a dirt road, it is pretty pathetic.

Yeah, subsidence is a major problem on that stretch because it is built over an old landfill. As the garbage in the old landfill continues to decompose voids open up, water percolates down through the soil bringing sand and particles down to fill the voids, and thus the road on top cracks and becomes uneven. This process will continue for another 100 years until all the garbage decomposes so that means every couple years for the next century we're going to have to fix the buckling road.