[Crawford]

San Diego, considering the massive decentralization, weak downtown, and difficulty of walking anywhere, has decent ridership. They could probably spend 5% of what it costs to build this asinine plan and get much higher ridership gains by simply investing in buses.

Also, San Diego has such pleasant year-round weather than it isn't unreasonable to ask people to wait at stops that are nothing more than a sign and maybe a bench. Can't do that year-round in blazing hot/sunny Phoenix, rainy Seattle, cold Chicago, humid Miami, etc.

Any transit planner who believes an RER style system makes sense for San Diego should find another line of work. It's absurd.