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One option presented by SANDAG on July 28, 2026, is an aerial design that puts the trolley tracks above the city.<\/p>\n
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The second option presented by SANDAG on July 28, 2026, is an underground design that puts the trolley tracks below street level. <\/p>\n
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The third option presented by SANDAG on July 28, 2026, is a combo design with some tracks at street level and others above.<\/p>\n
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SANDAG senior regional planner Cecily Taylor presented the study at the council\u2019s regular meeting. She acknowledged that all of the options are still very much on the drawing board.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s still a long path ahead,\u201d Taylor said. \u201cA lot more work to be done to move any of these ideas forward.\u201d<\/p>\n
SANDAG gathered community feedback on the options last year<\/a>. In May, the agency presented the findings to the La Mesa Mobility Commission<\/a>.<\/p>\n Each option comes with a high price tag. The cost of aerial design is estimated at $569 million, and the below-ground option would be almost $741 million. Taylor said the aerial design would require more than four years of construction. The underground option would likely take longer.<\/p>\n La Mesa City Council meets for their regular meeting on July 28, 2026.<\/p>\n Vice Mayor Lauren Cazares emphasized the city will not be making hasty decisions.<\/p>\n \u201cI think it\u2019s great we\u2019re looking into options for the future,\u201d Cazares said. \u201cThat being said, with that price tag, obviously, it\u2019s not something we\u2019re going to be moving on right this second.\u201d<\/p>\n The next step would be for the city to identify potential funding.<\/p>\n As the presentation and discussion wrapped up, Mayor Mark Arapostathis thanked Taylor and made it clear that the city is not taking action anytime soon.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019ll let our great-grandchildren know about this,\u201d he said, prompting chuckles from councilmembers and the audience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The La Mesa City Council on Tuesday got a glimpse of what the downtown La Mesa trolley station…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418016,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[74,76,75],"class_list":["post-418015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"La](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1785419594_982_.jpeg\")
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