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Recently, I was traveling south on College from Frazee to Mesa at 2:48 pm. Cars were lined up bumper to bumper from Frazee to Oceanside. There were no accidents, no breakdowns, just plain traffic. I passed a newly paved road on Old Grove road which would allow me to bypass the college/oceanside intersection. But I read the new road will not be available to us for a year and a half.  
Why build it now then? 

The next day returning from a meeting in the tri-city area. Cars were backed on College up past Olive.  What do we think will happen when the Sprinter shuts down the intersection of College and Oceanside every 15 minutes? It will get worse!

Traffic, traffic, traffic, is all I hear from residents on the trail 

So what are we doing about it? 

 We are turning down 500 million dollars of road improvements. 

 We have eliminated RDO even before we get the study. 

 And we build a road we cannot use.

All of this waiting for a new circulation element that will be available in about a year and a half.  

The new circulation element will be nothing more than an expensive report which will;

discover we have a traffic problem and we need more roads. Then, it will outline the huge almost impossibly expensive actions we need to take to expand College and el Camino.   The study may even observe that we have a central road that can be used and completed at a fraction of a cost to solve the problems and open up the center of the city to development.   

Why subject suffering Oceansiders to this long wait while we have it in our power to do something about it NOW.  
Rethink RDO – 
Rethink the road improvements that Oceanside placed in the SANDAG plan. After all, we actually vetoed our own suggested solutions. 
Maybe I am old fashion but I still believe the city council’s main responsibilities are the basic resident’s needs fire, safety and free and fluid traffic.  Don't let your actions jeopardize our citizen's safety.

Let us open up the new Old Grove road that bypasses the Oceanside/college intersection. You can do that now, even if it is temporary.

We need to address traffic now not a year and a half from now.  

Paid for by Friends of George Barrante for City Council   --   FPPC # 1284792, Gregory Barrante, Treasurer