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Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Fountain Valley,ca. USA
Posts: 1,180
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The sorry state of California freeways
I'm afraid the systems totally broke and the constant throwing money at the problem by Cal Trans won't fix it. Every time they decide to widen this section or that section it take years to get finished with multiple accidents and deaths before the project is done. Then as soon as its done, the lane or lanes is full of cars and going nowhere. Our freeways were for the most part designed in the 50s and all they have done since is try to fix all thats wrong with it. I don't believe anything short of a total revamping of the system will be anything but another band-aid. Maybe monorails for express passengers from major point to major point, maybe large carriers where you load 10 cars and their occupants and deliver then from lax to San Diego or wherever.Maybe an off shore tunnel like the chunnel used only for trucks and high occupant vehicles with only major destination inlets and outlets. Cal Trans has spent millions of dollars on car pool lanes that are almost unoccupied most of the time trying to force us to car pool, that is not the answer. I don't know the answer but at some point this native born Californian may just have to pack up and leave.
JMPRO
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