Comments on: freewheeling with bond’s highway billions http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/2007/02/12/freewheeling-with-bonds-highway-billions/ Getting around the Bay Area with Denis Cuff and the Queen of the Road Tue, 17 May 2011 06:04:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Dan http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/2007/02/12/freewheeling-with-bonds-highway-billions/comment-page-1/#comment-1065 Dan Tue, 14 Aug 2007 00:28:33 +0000 http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/2007/02/12/freewheeling-with-bonds-highway-billions/#comment-1065 The Bay area gets more than enough money through the astronomical tolls it charges on all of its bridges. The money would be better used in improving the roads leading out to the Monterey Peninsula. Every day traffic jams up on Highways 68 and 156…mostly tourists who visit Monterey, or people who work in Monterey but live in Salinas because housing on the Monterey Peninsula is out of most people’s reach.

Highway 68 is a 2-lane road designed to carry 15,000 VPD and currently carries more than double that. Same situation on Highway 156. Anyone who goes out to Monterey regularly will know that both of these roads are all too often the scene of fatal car crashes and constant traffic jams. They are in desparate need of widening to at least 4-lanes.

]]> By: Jason http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/2007/02/12/freewheeling-with-bonds-highway-billions/comment-page-1/#comment-1064 Jason Sat, 17 Feb 2007 06:04:20 +0000 http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/2007/02/12/freewheeling-with-bonds-highway-billions/#comment-1064 I have been to several public hearings on the Willits bypass. At each one, the vast majority of the people in the audience do not want this project at its current scale–4 lane freeway to handle ca. 7000 to 10,000 vehicles per day.

Many of us here want the Bay Area to get this money. Please lobby hard against the Willits bypass. It is complete lunacy.

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