The San Diego region’s segment of the LOSSAN corridor extends 60 miles from the San Diego County and Orange County border to the Santa Fe Depot in Downtown San Diego.  This critical rail corridor is the economic lifeline for the region, moving nearly eight million passengers and $1 billion worth of goods a year. It also plays a vital role in our nation’s defense by providing direct rail access to several key military bases.   During the next 20 years, SANDAG plans to construct nearly $1 billion in improvements in the San Diego segment, including primary efforts to double track the corridor from Orange County to Downtown San Diego, stabilize the rail segment along the coastal Del Mar Bluffs, and relocate the rail corridor off the eroding bluffs. The State of California recently provided $300 million in the state budget to jumpstart this relocation through the environmental and design phase—a huge step forward for a critically-important regional project.

The San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG) has invested significant resources into finally connecting the San Diego International Airport to the public transit and rail system in San Diego.  The SANDAG board recently approved a robust constructability and feasibility study that will bring a number of options to finally accomplish this goal and bring the project into a design phase.  The board is expected to move into the EIR phase of the project in 2023 and move forward with the construction of this generational project in 2024.  This multi-billion dollar project will reduce traffic, provide equitable access to the airport, and remake the urban core of San Diego

In November 2021, the Airport Authority began construction on the New T1, which includes the replacement of a new Terminal 1, improvements to the airfield, improved transportation connectivity to the airport, and a new administration building. The New T1 program’s total project budget is $3.4 billion and is estimated to create between 15,000 to 20,000 construction-related jobs. 

* (Courtesy of the San Diego County Regional Airport Authority)

Currently in construction, the Pure Water Project will use proven water purification technology to clean recycled water to produce safe, high-quality drinking water.  The program will provide nearly half of San Diego’s water supply locally by the end of 2035 and is the largest Water Recycling project in the nation.

Phase 1 of the Pure Water Program includes 11 different projects that will clean recycled water to produce 30 million gallons per day of high-quality purified water, reducing the City’s dependence on imported water. The projects include: 

1. Early Works at the North City Water Reclamation Plant 
2. Morena Pump Station 
3. Morena Pipelines Southern Alignment 
4. Morena Pipelines Middle Alignment 
5. Morena Pipelines Northern Alignment 
6. North City Water Reclamation Plant Expansion 

Phase 1 of the project, including the 11 contracts listed above, are currently underway. Phase 2 of the project, in its preliminary stages, is expected to be nearly $3 billion in infrastructure investment.