all interstates should be privatized and federal gas tax eliminated
sell the land and improvements with zero regulatory oversight
let the free market do its magic
I read this article and still don't understand what a "freeway cap" is. A dead end?
complete community” offering dense urban housing
When they do that with chickens, they call it animal cruelty.
Libertyis the enemy of the progressives.
It sounds wonderful.
Darn those scurvy peasants!
“the City’s plan for eliminating all traffic deaths by 2025, but also their reluctance to take personal responsibility for reducing transportation-related carbon emissions across the region.”
A rational country would institutionalize people like this. They’re dangerous to themselves and others.
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Living in a ‘Ratopia is H377 off wheelz.
Which is why they want the airport land so ferociously. There are BILLIONS of $$$ to be made from it, at no risk to the developers other than paying off Democrats, because they’ll be using taxpayer-backed loans.
-——toward prioritizing the City’s plan for eliminating all traffic deaths by 2025, -——
I had to read that twice because I was sure I missed something....
I’m all for limiting traffic deaths....but only a madman would think zero deaths that’s possible....
Used to pass through in 1965 on the way to the Sorrento beach and grill, 45 cent burgers with fries, we cut school for the burgers.
Just past the tunnel on pch, listening to the supremes singing "Love love love don't come easy..."
The left side was empty, just sand and ocean.
This is what you move to LA for. Open spaces, wandering mountain lions, wildlife and natural habitat preservation, go fishing off your front porch, that kind of thing.
Another proposal is still in the works to cap another portion of U.S. Route 101 with an overpass that would allow local mountain lions and other fauna to traverse the highway safely.
Of course the mountain lions and other fauna know to use their new bridge. But begs the question of why you want to encourage mountain lions to be able to access the more urban parts of the city.
Lastly, might this be a moot point given the destruction of 101 in the mudslides.
ask Seattle how they like I-5 capped. They limited themselves to two lanes each direction when they capped it in the middle of the city center.
This created a park (now full of bums, perverts and needles) as well as a space for an under sized state convention center that sits vacant much of the year.
AS a result, 4 lanes squish into 2 for about 3 or 4 miles. Some of the worst congestion in the country.
Not only that, but the morons are in the process of shutting down and eliminating Santa Monica Airport.
all this bullshit about “transforming” transportation into “multi-modal mode” is nothing more than a euphemism for turning existing street lanes into bike lanes, bus-only lanes and sidewalks. The result will be total traffic gridlock in leftist paradise because NO ONE IS GOING TO GET OUT OF THEIR CARS NO MATTER WHAT!
Ah, only in L.A. where unicorns prance and life is wonderful.
Still so very glad I got out of that state 12 years ago.