It seems incomprehensible that the City of Carlsbad has had the wherewithal to make animations of the proposed I-5 expansion project a year ago, when the EIR/EIS was just recently released. Seems they actually had a heads-up on what this might be like way before the citizens knew what it could, or would become. Maybe just an artists rendering, but certainly seems an accurate depiction of what is proposed.
While citizens were worrying about the freeway expansion, and the City of Carlsbad was seemingly ignoring it, they were spending money apparently doing video animations of the expansion, while vilifying the appearance of a proposed new power plant. Note the conspicuous absence of any sound walls to block the views? Note that only the "ugly" power plant is shown as an obstacle to views in the one video. Note the "flyover" entrance to the HOV lanes? Talk about ugliness in Carlsbad!
Note that the cities of Solana Beach. Del Mar, Vista and the Sierra Club joined with Carlsbad to fight against this power plant. Carlsbad pulled out all the stops, and focused much energy to try and get this power plant stopped. Yet, why haven't they done the same with the I-5 Freeway expansion? Don't these city officials see concrete as ugliness? Don't they see sound walls as blocks to the "natural beauty of our coastal views". Must be that a few hundred yards of industrial plant blockage of the view is worth fighting for, but miles of ugliness of concrete sound wall and concrete is just fine, because we're not hearing much from our elected officials.
If Carlsbad spent as much time and energy concerned about their citizens, and the effects of the I-5 widening project, as they have on the NRG Power Plant project, we'd be giving them accolades. Instead, they deserve onions as I see it. Or maybe just stink weed.
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