Posted on 09/20/2017 6:56:36 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
For all the talk in California about leading the world in fighting global warming and resisting President Trump’s climate-denial agenda, the state faces one powerful obstacle that limits its environmental activism: Touch their cars and Californians will revolt.
Any effort that limits, constrains or makes driving one’s car more expensive or inconvenient — no matter how civic-minded the proposal — is immediately controversial in California, and often a nonstarter. Getting between Californians and their cars can spell the end of a political career.
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti and the City Council have committed to help slow climate change and to make the city more sustainable. They’ve adopted policies, including the city’s Mobility Plan 2035, that are designed to encourage people to drive less and take public transit, bike and walk more.
How do you get people to walk or bike more? Making travel easier and safer for non-drivers often means removing traffic lanes and, yes, slowing travel for cars.
Will California lawmakers stick to their climate change goals when drivers threaten to revolt? We certainly hope so.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
“We certainly hope so.”
FU
Limiting ease of movement...for Gaia.
Yet, voters out there keep electing these clowns.
When the liberals get a hold on power, they will require a license to own an internal combustion engine and will severely limit the number of licences available.
Just raise the gas tax to $200 a gallon. That would slow them down.
Please do NOT click on the link.
We need the LA Times to wither on the vine and die. No clicks, no purchases, no advertising.
The headline is all you need to read anyway. You know it’s going to be followed up by standard liberal garbage. You know the conclusion (stated or implied): Americans must give up their cars, their lives in the suburbs, their jobs. Americans must be cramped into tiny apartments in Stalinesque mega-buildings and line up for mass transit while listening to lectures from the liberal Masters of Society.
Except for the liberal Masters of Society themselves, of course. They get yachts, limos and jet planes. But the rest of us can all go eat sh*t and die.
“Citizens getting in the way of government”
The LA Times can start by eliminating its parking lot and turning it into a solar array.
Cake...eat...too...
mass motoring is lavishly subsidized. It’s socialism.
Hard to believe but gas taxes pay for less than 1/4 of roads.
entitled = constitutionally protected free citizens
“Entitled Drivers”
It’s become an accepted practice for those who know little or nothing about a subject to coin a phrase that makes them appear as if they had a clue.
It happens all the time in science, and given that journalists are the polar opposite of those who actually know things of science, it is appropriate that our six sigma to the left of the Bell Curve normal are deciding how to label their latest silliness.
Please, journalists, do something you know.
Like....er....uh....um.....
Any effort that limits, constrains or makes driving one’s car more expensive or inconvenient — no matter how civic-minded the proposal — is immediately controversial in California, and often a nonstarter. Getting between Californians and their cars can spell the end of a political career.
Everyone is allowed to vote in California. And the illegals always vote Dem as it’s the Dems who have given them the lifestyle of a middle class wage earner......for free.
How do you get people to walk or bike more?
I’m very surprised that the enviro-weenies in California have not targeted drive-up windows at fast food restaurants....where your car idles for up to 10 minutes.
Marin County has done just that but it hasn’t spread AFIK. Could it be that elitist environmentalists don’t want to be forced to mingle with the hoi polloi?
Making travel easier and safer for non-drivers often means removing traffic lanes and, yes, slowing travel for cars.
To clarify, Marin County got rid of its drive-thrus.
When the liberals get a hold on power, they will require a license to own an internal combustion engine and will severely limit the number of licences available.
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