SANDAG asks staff to be 'ambitious' with RTP draft

Every four years the San Diego Association of Governments updates its Regional Transportation Plan. The next RTP will be adopted in 2019 and will include both a revenue-unconstrained scenario and a revenue-constrained plan. During the June 22 SANDAG meeting, the board suggested that staff be ambitious when preparing a draft plan to begin the upcoming process.

The board did not take a vote on a preferred funding scenario but discussed the advantages of being ambitious versus being cautious. Although an ambitious plan may disappoint residents whose projects are not built, the presence of such pr...