A long and bumpy road lies ahead for California — make that thousands of rutted, cracked and broken roads and highways.
Nearly
60% of the state’s roadways are distressed and need reconstruction or
major maintenance. More than a quarter of the bridges — 2,700 of them –
need major repairs or replacement. More than a third of culverts and
drainage systems have deteriorated from long-term policies of deferring
maintenance.
jumped from six to 17, while the number with “good” roads has fallen
from seven to four.
Those are just a few of the troubling facts
in a comprehensive 191-page report released last week by the California
Transportation Commission, which rates the state’s roads and highways as
“at risk,” scoring just 66 on a 100-point scale.
The report
provides a detailed account of the sorry state of our transportation
system. It also supplies projections of the staggering cost of restoring
it and expanding public transit.
The bill over the next decade:
$536.2 billion — that’s right, more than half a trillion dollars — with
nearly $200 million for badly needed new projects.
The trouble
is that even if local governments (which provide two-thirds of all
transportation funding) can find as much money for repairs as they spent
in the last decade, we still come up short by $94.7 million.
Is the stalemated Congress going to provide that money? Are you?
Probably
not — though it should be noted that over the last 50 years, per capita
spending on transportation projects in California has fallen by 60%,
while the population has tripled and we’re traveling five times as many
miles in-state.
Bushy II did business no favor when he gave out the massive tax cuts in the early 2000. The Governator and and The prior 20 years of GOP governors did business no favor when they destroyed the consumer protection in California. Mayor wannabe Garcetti did real estate developers no favor when he funneled over $1.5 Billion of property tax dollars to real estate speculator.
Their gigantic greed blinded them to anything bu the cash they were stuffing in their pockets. All that corruption raked off billions of dollars required for infrastructure including education with which the US becomes a barren land for business. Goniff and Mamzers like The Evil Eli cannot see that business cannot thrive in the cesspool of corruption which their greed causes.
Right now these economic trolls with the help of wannabe mayor Erik The trust Fund Baby are creating an unsustainable bubble in the Hollywood real estate market by giving out absurd variances to building codes and regs and then allowing the developer to keep them for 15 to 25 years. How many times, each project with be flipped and more entitlements will be requested is unknown. What is know that even the By Right projects under the current plan are too pro density and the bubble has been launched. The Spaghetti Factory appears to have been flipped. CBS appears to be in the process of being flipped. The Millennium’s demands make sense only if the project is being flipped.
Despite the fact that the 2010 Census shows that Hollywood has already exceeded its saturation point, mayor wannabe Garcetti promotes the new Hollywood Community Plan which pushes the ability of his buddies to flip sky-high.
Infrastructure does not matter. Corruption and Incompetence come hand in hand. There is No Solution to Hollywood’s transportation. The Hollywood freeway will not magically become 10 lanes each direction. The subway will not magically cover more than 5% of the county. A 5,000 sq. mi. county will not magically become a 2.5 mi vs 10 mi island like Manhattan. Hollywood’s road, freeway and subway capacity has already been exceeded, yet these fools are planning more and more highrises.
When these arrogant fools discover that they cannot sell or attack residents to their absurd skyscrapers, the bubble will imploded.
The report is just a ploy to lay the seed for some type of bond or sales tax bullshit that will get stuffed on the next possible ballot. Many new projects are popping up everywhere in L.A. doing repairs and upgrades, so the $$$ is clearly there, BILLIONS WORTH OF IT. The problem is the Liberals in Sacramento WILL NEED TO STEAL THE $$$$ SOMEWHERE TO PAY THEIR PENSION BUDDIES OFF, so naturally declare the roads a loss and then go to the voters. Same crap for the last 20 years. Remember Prop 1A? IF we didn’t pass it, California would be Bankrupt? Really? We voted it down, and the state still runs. Go figure?
Did our college educated, elected officials shut down all the ‘Future Forecasting’ departments of government?
Ladies and gentlemen, vote for not one incumbent. Not one!
Stop allowing campaign donations and who will they cater to?
Existing matching funds will cover debates and what not. ‘No need for anything else.