Why write?

5/16/07

Here's Pete Van Nuys' latest commonsense rebuttal
to more TCA encouraged noise, inked today in the Reg,
opposite Supe'Bates 500-word pro toll road op-ed opportunity.

We take what we can get, when we get it at all.

Because for every 10 we write, maybe 1 gets inked.

Still it serves a greater purpose.
It lets the Reg know "we're" all out here, looking, listening -
and thinking, and talking amongst ourselves -

and it's terrific therapy.

So once gain Pete knocks it out of the park.

I encourage us all, when the notion strikes - SWING!,
Write your feelings.
Send them to The Reg, The Sun Post, or the LATimes,
wherever, whenever - do it often.

It matters.

And, as always, pass it on,

jer
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Here's Pete,

From: pete van nuys
Date: May 16, 2007 10:12:59 AM PDT


If Dick Hirsch had made a valid point by citing the tragic death of the Cobel children I could let it slide. But not only was his reference tasteless, it was wrong.

That accident happened on a freeway that runs parallel to the 73 toll-way. If the life saving traffic relief he implies could have been provided by “infrastructure in the 5 corridor,” the 73 should have provided it. But the 73 will never pull semitruck traffic off the 5. It can’t even attract enough cars off the 5 to reduce freeway congestion. Why? The tolls discourage its use.

If we continue to buy TCA’s lie that toll-ways reduce freeway traffic, we’re doomed to gridlock. The 5 should have been widened through South Orange County years ago. But by law OCTA and Caltrans must kowtow to the toll-ways. The accident that killed those kids occurred in the overlap of three toll-way Non-Compete zones, and that’s a fact.

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Pete