Is the Foothill Transportation Corridor the Answer?

I don’t know, but what I do know is that there needs to be another transportation artery between Orange County and San Diego. Last Thursday I headed to San Diego for Comic-Con International ^[1]. Luckily I took the train. Shortly after 7:00am word was out that there was an accident on the 5 Fwy south at Las Pulgas. As we passed Basilone, the last exit to find an alternative route in Orange County, the traffic started backing up. I got the word out via Twitter ^[2] and email to my friends that were traveling south to find alternative routes, but some were already stuck in the mess.

The back up was over 2 hours long. The reason? An accident involving an overturned truck and some cars blocking all but one lane, plus the hillside on fire.

Here is a photo I took from the passing train:

This raises the question:

While the Foothill Corridor extension may help to alleviate traffic through South Orange County in the case of an accident, what recourse is there to alleviate the bottleneck on the 5 South through Camp Pendleton?

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