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Padres to the rescue

机译：救援人员

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"The city had to have a heart, so as not to look like Los Angeles." Wise words from San Diego's Republican mayor, Dick Murphy, explaining how the opening in 1985 of Horton Plaza, a seven-storey shopping complex, revitalised a decaying city centre. Clearly, no sane San Di-egan, then or now, would want the vast, unfocused urban sprawl, congested freeways and polluted air that their neighbours some 120 miles to the north have to suffer. Just as Canada is proud to be "not America", so San Diego, with its green Balboa Park and sparkling yacht marinas, boasts of being "not LA". Yet the boast is beginning to ring a little hollow. In the 1990s San Diego's population increased by 18%, but the capacity of its freeways and expressways rose by only 9%. At the same time, house prices have been rising too: the average is now about $380,000 ($490,000 for new homes), which only a fifth of San Diego families can afford to pay. Moreover, the situation could well worsen: official forecasts reckon that the population of San Diego county, now almost 3m, will grow to 3.6m by 2020, putting LA-type strains on local transport and housing. Indeed, the snail-pace rush-hour on the area's freeways is already uncomfortably similar to LA's.
机译：“这座城市必须有一颗心，以免看起来像洛杉矶。”圣地亚哥市共和党市长迪克·墨菲（Dick Murphy）的明智话语，解释了七层楼高的购物中心霍顿广场（Horton Plaza）于1985年开业，如何振兴一个正在衰落的市中心。显然，无论现在还是现在，没有任何一个理智的圣迪冈会想要广大的，分散的城市蔓延，拥挤的高速公路和空气污染，而北部约120英里的邻居却不得不遭受其苦难。就像加拿大为成为“非美国”而感到自豪一样，圣地亚哥，其绿色的巴尔博亚公园和波光粼粼的游艇码头也被称为“非洛杉矶”。然而，这种夸口开始有些空洞。在1990年代，圣地亚哥的人口增长了18％，但高速公路和高速公路的通行能力仅增长了9％。同时，房价也一直在上涨：现在的平均价格约为380,000美元（新房为490,000美元），只有五分之一的圣地亚哥家庭有能力负担。此外，情况可能会进一步恶化：官方预测认为，圣地亚哥县的人口现在已接近300万，到2020年将增长到360万，这给本地交通和住房带来了LA型压力。确实，该地区高速公路上的蜗牛步高峰时间已经与洛杉矶类似。

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