County aborts plan to extend Fallbrook St.

After 15 months of studying alternative routes to extend Fallbrook Street to the east, representatives from the San Diego County Dept. of Public Works (DPW) announced last week that a decision had been made to abort the project entirely, calling it “unnecessary for the next 15 to 20 years.”

“The road extension is simply not warranted for the next 15 to 20 years, based on the capacity [of traffic] expected; the DPW is going to stop looking into the Fallbrook Street extension project,” said DPW civil engineer Matt Widelski at the May 14 meeting of the Circulation Committee within the Fallbrook C...