[Fiji Hill]

The reason there's so much congestion is that although the population has surged in the past four decades, we're driving on 1972 freeways. Plans to expand the freeway system included:

• The Beverly Hills Freeway, which would have connected the Hollywood and San Diego Freeways along Santa Monica Blvd. A local Democratic politician, Anthony Beilenson was instrumental in blocking this project.

• The Whitnall Freeway would have run down the center of the San Fernando Valley. The right-of-way had been acquired, and all that was left was to pour the concrete--but Caltrans walked away from it.

• The Pacific Coast Freeway would have run down the coast from Santa Monica into Orange County.

• The Slauson Freeway would have run along Slauson Ave. through South-Central LA and across the East Side into Orange County.

• There were also plans to build a freeway along Highway 39 from Huntington beach to Azusa and to connect the Foothill Freeway with the San Bernardino Freeway. This connection was partly completed, but as you proceed south, the freeway peters out into a residential neighborhood in West Pasadena.

The fall-off in freeway construction seems to have paralleled the state's shift to the Left.

[faithhopecharity]

And when Jerry brown destroyed the excellent highway department, he replaced it with a dept of transportation that focused on , of all things, bicycle paths

[faithhopecharity]

Hilariously, the incompetent and unqualified political hack Jerry Brown forced in to running the highway department he deliberately crippled — was named Adriana Gisnturco. Affectionately translated as The Giant Turkey by all the staff (and most Californians , once they saw their roads being ruined and their easy ten minute commutes turning into two hour hells

[faithhopecharity]

Gianturco. Giant Turkey 🦃