[faithhopecharity]

Governor Jerry Brown (in his first incarnation as governor) abruptly halted all public works constructions in Californcation...including highways (and water resources)...in about 1974 or so........and there has hardly been any significant new freeways since...... even though the state’s population has more than doubled

the highways were (mostly) not clogged up when Jerry Brown shut them down....but after JerryB decided to shift the public works budget to, mostly, more welfare payments.......today’s horrid congestion and road rage attacks, violence.....ensued

[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.

[Bonemaker]

Enjoy....geniuses!