As the city works to address the growing scarcity of affordable child care, five recreation centers spread mostly across southeastern San Diego have been chosen as the first that could host such facilities — if they can find the funding needed to do it.It’s one of the increasingly urgent efforts by policymakers across California that aim to ease a worsening crisis that has left many thousands of families in the San Diego region without access to child care.To combat it, the state has already moved to overhaul how it pays the providers who serve California’s neediest families. The county has...…As the city works to address the growing scarcity of affordable child care, five recreation centers spread mostly across southeastern San Diego have been chosen as the first that could host such facilities — if they can find the funding needed to do it.It’s one of the increasingly urgent efforts by policymakers across California that aim to ease a worsening crisis that has left many thousands of families in the San Diego region without access to child care.To combat it, the state has already moved to overhaul how it pays the providers who serve California’s neediest families. The county has...WW…

Trains traveling through downtown San Diego will again stop sounding their horns when approaching railroad crossings, now that the Federal Railroad Administration has reinstated the area’s designated train “quiet zone.”The city’s quiet zones were temporarily suspended two weeks ago after an inspection found safety violations that needed to be fixed.Trains have since been blaring their horns between the Laurel Street and Fifth Avenue crossings as city crews worked to bring 12 intersections into compliance with federal standards. Mayor Todd Gloria said Tuesday in a statement that the city’s...…Trains traveling through downtown San Diego will again stop sounding their horns when approaching railroad crossings, now that the Federal Railroad Administration has reinstated the area’s designated train “quiet zone.”The city’s quiet zones were temporarily suspended two weeks ago after an inspection found safety violations that needed to be fixed.Trains have since been blaring their horns between the Laurel Street and Fifth Avenue crossings as city crews worked to bring 12 intersections into compliance with federal standards. Mayor Todd Gloria said Tuesday in a statement that the city’s...WW…