Budget crunch! Budget crisis! Budget shortfall!!!!!

How about spending less, you dimwits?

Agree....


On a different note. My wife was checking the British papers, and because of a British refinery issue + a strike, petrol in the UK is about to hit ~5 lbs/gallon!!!
Imagine: $10/gallon (yes we all know that they have a slightly different gallon but in general the same)...

Agree to infinity.

Agreed...there is no budget problem in government. However, there is a spending problem.

As I implied in my previous post I don't like the idea of toll roads... however when I had a girlfriend who lived in Encinitas for a short while I used the toll road going back and forth.

And I commute five days a week on the 110 so I would be first in line for a pass for that toll road.

Yes, you are.

FIVE YEARS AGO I brought this up. Nobody believed me then...drive free or die was the mantra. Today I get to say I TOLD YOU SOOOOOOOO!!!

I TOLD YOU SOOOOO>>>>> about the overburden of School Bureaucracy....and all those PSE vote DEMOCRAT.

Kalifornia is going to sink under the sea, and not from a big one on the San Andreas but from MASSIVE PUBLIC DEBT..caused by those narcisstic Liberals you Caliefornia voters keep on voting into office time after time. "AHHHH ain't this the good life here in Caliefornia..."

Yep, you're crazy. Years and years of state taxes on gasoline, and car registration fees have not gone to road maintenance, repair, upgrades or improvements. Those funds, which are billions, have been raided for the general fund for decades. It's not about traffic, congestion, mass transit or new roads. It's about revenue.

FYI - California, and other states are seeing a windfall from elevated gas prices because a portion of the tax is a percentage, not a flat fee per gallon. There is a combined State and local sales and use tax of 7.25 percent on top of an 18.4 cent-per-gallon Federal excise tax and an 18.0 cent-per-gallon State excise tax on gas in California.

a few years back me and a friend went riding about seven am on new years day. instead of heading north into the canyons, we went around the city. rolled out of hollywood, onto a deserted 101 through down town, 10 to the 405, up to the 101 again, back into hollywood. 28 miles in about twenty minutes. all the while thinking that the guys who designed the free ways were pretty smart.

but that was in the 50s. they did not expect 40 million people. and they did not expect to stop building new roads.

more busses are not going to solve the problem. and punishing attempts by the government to force me onto them is just offensive. who told them that they had the right to financialy penalize me into getting on their dumbass public transit system?

At least there are a lot of great Pelicans to hang out with!:D

first off, it talks about making the carpool lanes toll - not the whole freeway. You can still drive for free on the other lanes. Second, it sounds like you can pay to play - ie if you don't have 2 riders you can pay to use the carpool lane. Isn't that fairly capitalistic? You got the gold, you get to "break the rules."

But the tinfoil hat worry over "controlling the population through public transportation" is pretty funny. It's about money, not "control."

But then they gradually eliminate the carpool portion of those accepted in the lanes until it is only pay as you go. Furthermore, they'll eliminate enough lanes to make the remaining "free" traffic heavy even in off peak periods to encourage people to use (and pay for) the toll lanes.

maybe. Maybe if people would quit driving vehicles that are 5x bigger than they really needed we wouldn't have so many traffic problems.

Next time I see a Tahoe parked in a "compact" spot I'd like to smash it with a hammer. God forbid that they park further away and actually have to walk another 20'...

but that's another rant :p

See the 91 between the 55 and Green River Pkwy

This is going to beat the hell out of the car pool lanes. I guarantee the ones that use it will be all the heavy trucking places and commercial vehicles - unless they're somehow restricted. Just what we need - big heavy over-the-road trucks in ALL the lanes now.

This is a bad idea no matter how you slice it.