San Diego adopts 2025 Mobility Master Plan to prioritize sidewalks, bikeways and 'quick‑build' projects

City Planning staff presented a 2025 Mobility Master Plan on Tuesday that lays out a citywide program for sidewalks, transit priority, bikeways, signaling upgrades and lower‑cost 'quick‑build' interventions in eleven focus areas. After public comment and committee review, the council adopted the plan unanimously and accepted two friendly amendments to the performance indicators.

The plan ranks roughly 377 projects using a data‑driven methodology that weights equity, safety and proximity to people most dependent on walking and transit. Phil Traum and colleagues said the master plan is designed to help staff prioritize funding, better compete for grants and coordinate with departments (Transportation, Engineering & Capital Projects) and regional partners (SANDAG, MTS). It includes programmatic options (neighborhood shuttles, slow‑streets pilots, transit shuttles) and staff flagged 'quick‑build' as an implementation pathway intended to deliver safety improvements faster and cheaper than full capital projects.

Council discussion focused on how quickly 'quick‑build' approaches will be prioritized, how the plan will be updated with future community plan updates, and the need for clearer annual benchmarks in the performance monitoring chapter. Several council members requested that staff explicitly test quick‑build options first where feasible to deliver more projects more quickly. Two small amendments were accepted to add street‑lighting and traffic‑signal upgrades as tracked performance indicators.

Next steps: Staff will use the plan to guide capital prioritization and to pursue grant funding; the plan also contains a monitoring program to track mode share, vehicle‑miles traveled, safety outcomes and other measures. Council invited follow‑up briefings and local implementation dialogues for specific focus areas.