Posted on 09/29/2006 11:09:23 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
Gov. Schwarzenegger signed legislation Thursday that is intended to give parents and guardians more information about potential problems at licensed child-care facilities.
The bill by Assemblyman John J. Benoit, R-Bermuda Dunes, stemmed from the March 2004 drowning of Aryanna Sanchez in an above-ground spa at a Riverside day-care center.
A social worker had cited the center's husband-wife operators at least once for leaving the spa uncovered. But Aryanna's mother, Anita Aguilar, never knew of the violation.
Under AB 633, child-care centers are required to make available investigative reports and other paperwork, including evidence of the state's intent to pull a center's license. Centers already are required to have a public copy of any licensing report.
Also, Schwarzenegger vetoed two Inland lawmakers' bills dealing with drinking-water contamination and advertising for Riverside Plaza.
The drinking-water legislation, by state Sen. Nell Soto, D-Pomona, is tied to state efforts to identify safe levels of perchlorate in Inland and other areas water supplies.
The bill would have required require the state Department of Health Services to consider the effects on human health when weighing whether to adopt a drinking-water standard that is higher than a public-health goal.
The governor also vetoed a bill by Assemblyman Benoit to let Riverside put up a sign advertising Riverside Plaza along a section of Highway 91.
Supporters said the plaza, which the city redevelopment agency is paying to renovate, needs better exposure to passing motorists. But Schwarzenegger said he is leery of making exceptions to a state law that bans advertising along landscaped freeways.
Supporters said the plaza, which the city redevelopment agency is paying to renovate, needs better exposure to passing motorists. But Schwarzenegger said he is leery of making exceptions to a state law that bans advertising along landscaped freeways.
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and here he claims he is pro-business.. lol
I don't like advertising on highways, just one more distraction and makes them look a mess. BTW, there is zero advertising allowed on the Autobahn, the closest you get is the standard traffic sign indicating a gas station or lodging ahead.
Check the accident rate on the Autobahn: Something like twice that of similar US roads.
Think about it. The opposite of distracting is boring. In West Texas, you look forward to billboards.
California is a big state. one sign here by a Riverside freeway for a local project is Verboten? gimme a break.
we have traffic advisory signs all over the place these days..
try drioving around the bay area freeways without seeing signs, this is a joke, imo,, plus Riverside leans right voter wise,, something the Gub only occasionally does of late.
This was a good move.
a shopping center has more than one business,, the local community is a major sponsor of the funding yet they are told to stifle their ability to market their wares over signs that only to frequently proliferate in the Bay Area and other areas., they usually get grandfathered in anyway, yet a new community endeavor is locked out..
Legal, supposedly per the current laws.
Fair? I'd have a bitter taste in my mouth if I was one of the shop owners.
Germany:
In fact, the annual fatality rate (3.2 per billion km in 2004)
averaging almost 50,000 vehicles per day on any given segment.
A couple of notes about traffic reports: sometimes the "traffic report" may include information that has nothing to do with traffic such as emergency alerts, police bulletins, etc. Also, if you have a German rental car with a cassette or CD player, don't be surprised if your Falco tape or disc is interrupted by reports of a Stau somewhere-- German radio tuners continue to monitor the last-selected radio station even when a tape or CD is being played. Radio stations broadcast a special tone at the start of traffic reports which causes the tuner to switch the audio from the tape or CD to the radio so that you can hear the information. Traffic reports use one of several terms to describe varying levels of congestion: "Stau" usually means a colossal traffic jam where you'll probably get to know the people in the cars around you, "stockender Verkehr" indicates the only slightly more tolerable stacking or slow-and-go type traffic, while "dichter Verkehr" or "zähfliesender Verkehr" denotes the hardly-noteworthy heavy or sluggish but moving traffic.
http://gettingaroundgermany.home.att.net/autobahn.htm
US
According to USDOT statistics, the nation’s freeways and expressways had 8.6 fatalities per billion miles traveled in 1998. Data for toll roads from IBTTA show a fatality rate of 6.2 per billion miles traveled.
http://www.reason.org/ps274.html
Apology: I was wrong. I remembered some years ago that Germany had some twice the accident rate as the US.
Having said that, a lot goes into a fatality besides the design of a road. Driver training before the accident, and average distance to emergency rooms after the accident would be a couple of factors that would seem to be important.
Deaths per billion vehicle-kilometers traveled on highways in 2003: US 5.2, Germany 3.8.
Just curious.. You voting Yes or No on Prop 90?
The Gub has of yet to come out for either side.
Plz refer to post 8....
It sounds even more sad, because the announcement usually goes something like "5 kilometers stockender Verkehr." The biggest I ever hit was about 18 miles, but I've heard announcements for much more on the radio during snow storms, over 50 miles.
In that case you can get off onto the secondary roads, but the fatality rate for those is higher than in the US.
BTW, you can turn those reports off.
I'm voting yes.
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