"Car Crazy" Californians at it again

The Victor Valley Transit Authority has voted to drop its bus service that takes commuters from the High Desert to Metrolink and bus stops in the Inland Empire.

According to the article, some of these huge busses had no more than 19 people on them.

Said the VVTA General Manager, "It seems Victor Valley residents, like most other people in Southern California, prefer not to park their SUVs and use mass transit"

No duh.

Now lets put that money to better use. ... like perhaps fixing the 15/215 interchange, US 395, Building the High Desert Corridor (138/18). You know, something people actually use.

Dateline NBC: Most Dangerous Roads

Tonight's Dateline NBC took a look at the nation's most dangerous roads. At the end, they did the top 5 most congested cities. Of course our Los Angeles was #1.

They had an interview with Doug Failing (Director of Caltrans District 7). The reporter asked him "Is it ever going to get any better?"

His reply, after a short pause and a sigh was, "No. No it's not." They cut him off after that and I would be curious to see what he had to say afterwards. Doug's a bright guy and he knows what needs to be done to fix the problems.

Also, NBC was very fair with the evaluation. Instead of saying the solutions are to build more mass transit, they actually admitted it is too expensive and the cities are too spread out. Amusingly, they showed the empty Red Line subway while talking about that. They also briefly discussed HOT lanes.

A Regular Commuter Comments on Carpool Lanes

Looks like it is starting to dawn on regular Joes that carpool lanes aren't such a great idea.

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