"I may haf schtuped most of Caleefornia but this one isn't mine."
Posted on 04/01/2010 6:59:53 AM PDT by passionfruit
Sacramento, CA - Cars will likely become an endangered species in the San Bernardino and San Gabriel Mountains. Caltrans and the US Forest Service settled a lawsuit filed in the Northern California District Court by GaiaSustain, a Wyoming-base environmental organization, late Wednesday afternoon. The settlement, which keeps commercial, government, and emergency traffic in the mountains, will require the elimination of private vehicles above 2,200 feet above sea level after April 1, 2018.
The 2008 lawsuit contended that vehicular traffic in the mountains violated a 1977 environmental treaty with Mexico to reduce airborne dust pollution. GaiaSustain alleged in the suit that high-altitude driving along the coastal and desert slopes produced an additional 220 metric tons of pollutants beyond those permitted by the treaty. Originally, GaiaSustain sought to eliminate all ground vehicles.
If there is a fire, this system won' be able to get everyone off the mountain, and many will die. This is insanity!
No senior citizens and handicapped people allowed. If you can’t hike you can’t go. Special preserve for the healthy and young.
I suggest buying plenty of Flying Pigeons directly from China wholesale now and have them shipped by container, you will need them in California.
Sorry, Passion, but you are an evil capitalist exploiter of the land and are causing dust to float into Northern Mexico, a fertile green area with an extreme deficiency of dust. You must give your property to the State and vacate.
Sorry to make light of your problem, but does it seem odd to you that this announcement was made on April 1?
The few remaining sensible people in CA need to REVOLT. This is stupid beyond belief.
But...it does provide a new bribing opportunity for votes in Congress. ;-/
April Fools, right?
Uh....this has got to be an April Fools joke, right?
Need to address this as a separation of church and state issue.
These morons worship the earth (gaia) and are imposing their religious beliefs on the rest of us.
Go, Kalifonia, Go. The Stupid State.
This is some sort of sick joke? Right?
Aren’t all the communities/lakes/ski areas above 2,200 feet? Those are high mountains, up to 7,000 or 8,000, right? So you are basically cutting off all access to anything worth doing up there. The economy up there would completely tank. Public transportation would not cut it for getting up there, because people have to haul their gear, and many people have to get supplies and equipment up to their vacation homes and land.
This is going to be a very hot issue.
Why not..its obvious most of California is becoming brain free...can’t have all those anencephalics on the rod now...
Apparently there is no reciprocity. Pollution from the Mexican state of Chihuahua pollutes the Big Bend Park of Texas to such an extent that the sun can often barely be seen through the haze.
“RIMOFTHEWORLD.net was able to obtain a draft copy of the plan developed by Navtrox, Inc, which would allow for a light-rail system that would serve the mountain communities from Crestline to Big Bear, branching to Lucerne Valley on the desert side and to Mentone on the coastal side. Gated and secure park-and-ride lots would be provided for visitors and residents. Additionally, two aerial tramways would be constructed, one from Running Springs to Highland and one from Crestline to near the California State San Bernardino campus. Mountain bus service would be expanded to provide access to all of the residental areas, in most cases. Extremely remote residents as wells as disabled residents will be given waivers to continue personal access to their homes.”
Reality tomorrow.....
They cannot be thinking of a light rail system over miles of steep mountainous terrain for only $800 million dollars.
They want to bring in buses to evacuate people from fires? What a joke. Everybody up there has animals that they will want to take with them or move to safer shelter. Are they getting on the bus, too?
“Apparently there is no reciprocity. Pollution from the Mexican state of Chihuahua pollutes the Big Bend Park of Texas to such an extent that the sun can often barely be seen through the haze.”
There is no reciprocity with anything to do with Mexico. They don’t do the death penalty, so when their citizens murder ours, we don’t kill them like we do US citizens....and then there is that ‘migration’ thing...
This same kind of thing has been pulled in Oregon...shutting off land owners in the name of environmentalism. Many of us protested, begged, threatened, but no one noticed.
I live just out of Yellowstone Park. There has been rumors of a coming car ban in YNP for years. This too will happen. The “funny” thing about this is that the granola crunchers wearing their Che T-shirts and unshaved armpits(both m/f) will be the first to go nuts in protests.
This is the problem with idiot liberals and green Nazis, and April 1. You literally can’t tell what’s parody and what’s serious today. I have no idea whether this story is real or fake...it’s too plausible that a bunch of jackwads from Wyoming would actually try something like this, and that government would abet them in it.
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