styro-mayor fears snowy seas

6/20/07

SC Council Meeting - Tues. June 19 - 07
Around 10:30 p.m., during 'council-comments'
Mayor Jim, recounting a recent boating outing
warned us of styrofoam cups at sea...
"sometimes so thick, it looks like snow out there,"
suggesting the city take the next year to think
about banning the non-degradable stryomenace.
Next up - Council member Eggleston suggested
the PGC developer kick-in an extra million bucks
to help finish La Pata. SC's longest running no-fix
north-south traffic corridor. If finished today, eliminates
TCA's superfluous logic of a toll road within our
city limits. Mayor Jim, councilmen Anderson and
Knoblock kabashed finishing La Pata quicker'n
you can say "241-extension." Then Mayor Jim
announced he's been anointed Chair of the 73!
(Laguna toll road) with this comment,
"After 10-years of sitting there (TCA dais), guess
now I'll have to do something."
Killing La Pata is Mayor Jim doing something
for TCA as he worries sea-going styrofoam and
SC's real-world traffic solutions sink further into
TCA's blathering traffic-soup of really how to
screw up SC traffic (and everything else here).
Let's hope Councilwoman Donchak's honest
traffic concerns, combined with councilman
Eggleston's long running quality of life
stewardship casts a continuing bright light on
SC's much needed real-world traffic fixes.
As for styrafoam cups at sea?
Let's all take a year and think about it.
And remember Mayor Jim's traffic advice,
"Don't commute on Pico at rush-hour."