Weekend getaway alert
Channel 9 is showing more-than-the-usual afternoon rush hour gridlock on freeways as people exit for the long weekend. Radio traffic reporters say the 91 is jammed pretty much from Gardena into Riverside County.
The Times' ace night editor can attest to that! It took her TWO HOURS to get from Yorba Linda to downtown L.A. (taking the dreadful 91 and 5). The freeway travel time sign near the 5/605 interchange indicated 25 minutes to downtown 45 minutes to Glendale. That's the longest travel times she's seen on the route.
A lot of red on the freeway map.
Three problems solved by adding $2/gal. to fuel prices:
1) people who chose to live in Palmdale and work in Long Beach would rethink their priorities. No one put a gun to their heads and forced them to spend 4-hours/day on the freeways.
2) people would either move closer to their jobs; or, they would work closer to their homes.
3) fewer latch-key children; today, children arrive home before 3pm and their parent(s) start arriving home after 5:30pm (or worse). No wonder we have two generations of well...whatever they are.
You ask what will become of the money generated from adding $2/gal. to fuel prices? FREE bus and metrorail. We'll get these people out of
their SUVs. Then, we'll get the un-registered vehicles and the illegal
population off the road...and then...there will be just you and me on the
freeways.
Problem solved.
Posted by: bg mendell | February 17, 2007 at 06:27 AM