{"id":1723,"date":"2007-12-24T09:49:48","date_gmt":"2007-12-24T16:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=1723"},"modified":"2007-12-24T09:49:03","modified_gmt":"2007-12-24T16:49:03","slug":"carlsbadistan-to-escondido-by-rail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=1723","title":{"rendered":"Carlsbadistan To Escondido By Rail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/news-train280.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/news-train280.jpg','popup','width=280,height=175,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/news-train280-tm.jpg\" height=\"125\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"News-Train280\" \/><\/a>With the recent completion of the $477 million <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gonctd.com\/sprinter_map_network.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Sprinter light rail line<\/a> from Oceanside to Escondido it will be possible for <em>Carlsbadistan<\/em> residents to get to Escondido (and <strong>Cal State San Marcos<\/strong>) by train, according to a story in the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.signonsandiego.com\/news\/northcounty\/20071224-9999-1n24sprinter.html\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego Union-Tribune<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>But not everyone is happy. Former Vista Councilman <strong>Dick Cooke<\/strong> didn&#8217;t like the cost.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I think it&#8217;s far too expensive,&#8221; former Vista Councilman <strong>Dick Cooke<\/strong> said. &#8220;They could have built two more lanes on the (state Route) 78, which would have been completed by now.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Cooke is a prime example of the kind of twisted logic that continues to cripple mass transit in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Luckily, Carlsbad City Councilwoman <strong>Julie Nygaard<\/strong> is on the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gonctd.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">NCTD<\/a><\/strong> board and on the program. She was one of those behind getting a 1.7 mile California State University San Marcos loop so students could ride the train to school. The Sprinter is scheduled to open to the public on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gonctd.com\/sprinter_schedules.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Sunday January 13<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.signonsandiego.com\/news\/northcounty\/20071224-9999-1n24sprinter.html\" target=\"_blank\">[Link: San Deigo Union-Tribune]<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the recent completion of the $477 million Sprinter light rail line from Oceanside to Escondido it will be possible for Carlsbadistan residents to get to Escondido (and Cal State San Marcos) by train, according to a story in the San Diego Union-Tribune. But not everyone is happy. Former Vista Councilman Dick Cooke didn&#8217;t like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1723"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}