California's War on Cars

One way to force people into public transportation is to just stop upgrading the highways. As the traffic increases, it reaches gridlock without the continuous upgrades which have been going on since the 1920s. But since the leftist despise private automobiles, and the freedom that they represent, they must destroy them. Benign neglect of the highway system will do it. They use various envirowhacko excuses, and they have indoctrinated Californians since birth that "Global warming" is killing us all, and "carbon pollution" (actually a green plant grown booster) will destroy everything. So, no more road upgrades....you all can just choke. Or ride our electric trains....where we can totally control your lives.

excuse me..... that should be "green plant growth booster"

I'm a native Californian, and I can definitively inform Mr. Greenhut that every new road built in California has resulted in more congestion, not less. First the freeway itself loads up, and then it starts pulling new traffic into the area. Example -- the 57 freeway in Orange County, now an official parking lot. The only roads not congested are the toll roads.

You wouldn’t know it here. Masses of cars, mostly new and many upmarket to luxury. A fire captain on the street where I was raised is driving a Genesis when he isn’t driving a fire department vehicle. In our nearby community, the streets are full of Mercedeses, Lexuses, Cadillacs, and on and on. The Chinese kids who graduate high school appear to favor Ferraris (yes, those noisy cars) and other foreign luxury marques. Most of us have driven on freeways since we were teenagers. The smartest among us allow plenty of time to get where we are going, and try to stay philosophical (and take care of our bp) by trying not to get road ragey when we are held up on the road. The GPS with traffic monitor in our car is perhaps my favorite feature. We are also in an area we know well so alternative routes are always in the back of our minds. My late Dad received his five year renewal at age 88 when he was in hospital with a stroke that claimed his life. I told him about it. I like to think he understood me… A fine and careful driver, he had driven the freeways to a fairly distant workplace every day until he retired at 75. No one can spoil our driving … not even those morons temporarily hanging out in Sacramento.

Re #4, five year driver’s license renewal… but you knew what I meant. I’ll take driving a California freeway to spinning on black ice on the Merritt Parkway any time….

It's a mess here. We're stuck in our houses on the weekends in the summer because people going to Santa Cruz get off hwy 17 and cut through our town thinking the are saving time. They use WAZE and clog our streets. It's just as bad during the week with commute traffic cutting throught town. Our nephew had an interview with Tesla last Monday. We told to think long and hard about moving here.He'd have to live far away from the job because he wouldn't be able to afford the rent. He'd have at least a 2 hour commute every day. Haven't heard back from him. California has been completely ruined.I grew up here surrounded by orchards, farms and ranches. I know things change, but this is rediculous.

Nothing wrong with CA that a Bullet Train couldn’t put right....

Should be ridiculous.

Yet another reason to avoid that horrible place. I drive 30 miles to work every day through back roads in the Appalachian Mountains. If I see a dozen cars along the way its heavy traffic. Guaranteed though, one of those dozen will be climbing up my tail pipe.

Cars equal freedom. The left has a plan for you, and it requires you to live in a tiny apartment, just like the Soviet Union, or a bizarre SimCity experiment. How dare you question your overlords.

The war on cars is nothing more than a rich source to levy taxes on it, claim the money is needed for roads and bridges, then the money flows into everywhere else except for roads and bridges. It's a good way to raise taxes on the gullible moron voters.

It is REALLY unpleasant to drive in the LA basin, so miserably congested. I go to San Diego to visit friends and occasionally have had to drive up to 29 Palms to see USMC friends. Want a tribulation! Crazy drivers and pretty much all the roads massively overloaded. I am always glad to get away from there and back to relatively normal driving in the KC area. Our biggest problem is the ongoing construction of new high speed roads, and adding lanes, better intersections, etc. The construction is an irritation, but when it is completed, traffic flows better. California traffic, you an keep that, too.