Arange Sandbags? Gee, thanks.
By JP(JP)
Downtown Encinitas has a bit of a chip on it’s shoulder over Leucadia, but it’s pure luck that the tracks curve in just enough so that Encinitas is able to have a two sided mainstreet downtown. Imagine if the tracks ran all the way down …

Sandbags were placed around the Leucadia Blvd intersection recently to help control erosion. I don’t know if it was the city of Encinitas of NCTD that placed the sandbags there. I’m not against the sandbags, but do they really need to be orange?
I’ve never even seen orange sandbags before, have you? What the hell man?
I swear it’s a conspiracy sometimes. I mean, orange sandbags? Talk about your proverbial sore thumbs.
Yes, the sandbags are orange. You noticed too? Good thing the sandbags are orange or else I would have swerved and run over them.
Let’s see, orange sandbags? Check. Dirt and weeds? Check. Okay people, nothing to see here, move along.
When people complain that Leucadia is ugly what they really mean is that the NCTD rail corridor is not managed well. The NCTD is like it’s own government and they don’t seem to care if their railway uglies up your downtown. The dirt, weeds, dust and grim and puddles all belong to the NCTD. Downtown Encinitas has a bit of a chip on it’s shoulder over Leucadia, but it’s pure luck that the tracks curve in just enough so that Encinitas is able to have a two sided mainstreet downtown. Imagine if the tracks ran all the way down the coast highway like in Leucadia.

Encinitas city councilman Jerome Stocks is on the NCTD board (Planning Commitee Chairperson and Member of Governance Committee) Maybe if we ask nicely our good pal Jerome will have the orange sandbags replaced with normal sandbags so we don’t look like a bunch of hicks.