Why do we pay taxes if people like the President are for building toll roads that change rates according to peak commute hours? Check out this collection of articles:
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/bottleneck/2007/week7/index.html
I can not express how enraged I am to read such stupidity. Instead of growing with the times our government officials are taking advantage of the population increase and their predecessors lack of foresight to design Freeways that would be large enough to keep traffic flowing for decades.
Instead, the 91 freeway has been one of, if not the worst freeway tax payers drive on every day to get to work. And instead of addressing the problem and widening the freeways, these morons are capitalizing on the suffering of others. And yes, it is suffering. Have you ever spent 2 hours in gridlock to go 20 miles?
We have a choice right? We could pay the $9.25 and bypass about 30 minutes of traffic on the 91, but why? The lanes end and merge drivers into the areas where the congestions starts. Right at the 71. We still have to crawl passed the 71 and the 15, transitions so poorly designed they back up usable lanes starting around 1:30 pm and slow down the rest of the freeway sometimes until 10 pm everyday, even weekends.
Those that think capitalizing on tax payers is a great idea should be demoted to monitoring those roads during the hours of 4-6pm daily for the rest of their lives. We don’t need more toll lanes, we need more free lanes. We don’t need more carpool lanes because so many of us come from so many other directions in Souther California that it is unusable. The time spent in organizing a groups schedule to get in a car at 4:30 am to get to from Riverside to Orange County by 7 am is better wasted rotting in our own cars by ourselves. At least we can sleep 2 more hours and go to lunch that day. The whole thing is just stupid stupid stupid.
I call for a traffic renaissance revolution. I say everyone stuck in the lanes on the 91 should merge into the Express Lanes. They can’t catch us all right? Only a couple a day. One $300 fine a year vs 27 days a year in traffic sounds good to me. And yes, 27 24 hour days. At 2.5 hours a day I spend 650 hours a year in traffic. 27 solid days breathing exhaust, destroying the atmosphere, wasting gas, and killing my body to get to where the money is, and get back to where I can afford to live. There isn’t even a road from Anaheim Hills to Corona. A simple 3 mile road along the hillside through to Corona at Greenriver would alleviate so much of the congestion. I’m not sure about the status of that hillside. It may be part of the preservation of the Cleveland National Forest. All those idle cars are killing more of the habitat than a 2 or 3 lane road along the hillside would. How many millions of gallons of gas are wasted in gridlock along the 91 freeway before Greenriver?
The 91 freeway is a major corridor for people driving from all areas in Riverside. This is why carpooling does not work. These areas include, but are not limited to, Palm Springs, Temecula, Elsinore, Murrieta, Mira Loma, Ontario, Rancho Cucamonga, Pomona, Loma Linda, Corona, Yorba Linda, Riverside, Chino. All the money is in Orange County and Los Angeles, and all the affordable housing is in the Inland Empire.
Its the people of the Inland Empire that help make Southern California what it is economically, but its these people that are made to suffer and are taken advantage of daily due to the conditions of the freeways we are made to drive on.
Forget the immigration protests. What if everybody who drove the 91 Freeway took a day off, or how about a week? What if we all went on vacation in the same week? Economic growth in Orange County and Los Angeles would grind to a halt. What will it take to open the eyes of the right people to get this freeway moving again?
Its time to take action because these morons in charge are working backwards. Instead of fixing the 4-3 lane bottleneck at the 91 and 15 they’re reconditioning the road at the 241. What the heck is with that? The congestion begins in Corona, not Anaheim Hills. It just backs up into Anaheim Hills at Weir Canyon. Hello, is anybody home, think Mclfy think!