Why San Diego Has Ramps to Nowhere (SR-252)

Discover San Diego’s unbuilt freeway—where an entire corridor was cleared, contested, and left as “ramps to nowhere.” FREE San Diego "Top Must-See Spots" eBook Here! 👉 http://bit.ly/Voyager-eBooks Today, we trace the full story of Highway 252 (SR-252)—a planned east–west connector that cut through Southcrest and Shelltown, displaced families in the 1970s, was ultimately stopped by community action, and later became the site of parks, public art, and the 2024 Chollas Creek flood. From Kumeyaay homelands along the creek to postwar freeway planning, grassroots organizing, and modern resilience efforts, this journey uncovers the people, places, and decisions that reshaped the corridor—and how their legacy still defines this part of San Diego today. In This Video: 🔹 Chollas Creek as a Kumeyaay lifeline and the pre-freeway landscape 🔹 Booster era and rail/road grid: Horton’s New Town, the Kimballs, Ah Quin, and Spreckels 🔹 Postwar freeway ideology: relieving I-5, building I-805, and proposing an east–west connector 🔹 State action to build SR-252: and partial construction at 43rd/I-805 🔹 Clearance and community pushback 🔹 Afterlife and legacy corridor reclamation and the 2024 flood ---------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright & Fair Use Full image/video credits here: [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Y8N-gvSLH0auExF2LvK283jmi2v8cgn2XoXmHMJ6lRg/edit?usp=sharing] All materials are used for educational purposes under the guidelines of fair use. We do not intend to infringe on any copyrights. For any copyright concerns, please contact us at: 📧 [email protected] Copyright © 2025 - All rights reserved. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Watch this Next: San Diego - https://youtu.be/YMZ6pRNE_Ak Los Angeles - https://youtu.be/3EfeEUtoqt8 ----------------------------------------------------------------- • Youtube - (Subscribe Here) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCH8Yk1EwFcqpWzNyiW558EA?sub_confirmati