Projects

For the past 40 years, Northwest Leucadia has been fighting for a safe pedestrian rail crossing.

While a number of safe rail crossings have been built at Swami’s and multiple locations in Cardiff, Northwest Leucadia—and specifically, the two mile stretch between Leucadia Blvd. and La Costa Ave.—remains without a sanctioned crossing that would provide safe pedestrian access to beaches, businesses, and parks.

Now that the North County Transit District (NCTD) has fenced off the rail line in Leucadia’s Northwest corridor, a timely and cost effective solution is needed NOW.

Northwest Leucadia’s population is more than triple that of coastal Encinitas and Cardiff. Yet, Northwest Leucadia has - ZERO - safe rail crossings—while coastal Encinitas and Cardiff are home to THREE!

NOWLeucadia is asking for the immediate prioritization of a rail crossing in Northwest Leucadia

Leucadia’s growing … and quickly.

We’re biased, of course, but we don’t blame anyone for wanting to land in Leucadia. In fact, the growth of businesses along the 101 corridor over the past decade has been nothing but a benefit to those who live here. However, there are a number of recent developments that have seemingly been approved without consideration for their impact on the daily life of Leucadians.

We want to encourage our council members to heartily embrace progress and development, but with a bias towards protecting the livability of our community.

Development in Northwest Leucadia is expected to increase daily car trips by over 20,000 trips per week—yet there are nearly no infrastructure changes currently slated to mitigate this traffic.

Currently, the traffic impacts of development in Encinitas are vetted only on an individual project basis—rather than as a cumulative total—which has resulted in plans that largely ignore the overall effect of traffic increases, and this is especially relevant in Leucadia.

Except for the addition of a middle turn lane on La Costa Avenue for the Weston Project, there are no infrastructure changes planned to manage the traffic that the other La Costa projects will bring to our community. At minimum, the projects will contribute an additional few thousand trips per day.