Posted on 02/10/2018 6:41:05 PM PST by BenLurkin
The California Department of Transportation, in cooperation with a joint powers authority, will in June begin buying land to build a 63-mile high desert freeway connecting the Los Angeles County communities of Palmdale and Lancaster with the San Bernardino County communities of Victorville, Apple Valley and Adelanto.
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The county’s first new freeway in a quarter-century is something of a throwback, as regional planners have shifted their focus in recent years toward mass transit and infill development to combat snarled traffic and housing shortages. Yet it serves as a reminder that even as Los Angeles moves to encourage more density in its urban neighborhoods, development continues to push into the scrublands on the county’s fringes.
...Palmdale and Lancaster have seen their populations surge — even landing among the nation’s 10 fastest-growing cities in 2007, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. T
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The environmental impact report has already been approved, paving the way for right of way agents to begin acquiring land this spring with $274 million generated by Measure M, a sales tax increase approved by Los Angeles County voters in 2016 to build transportation projects over the next 40 years.
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State and county officials say they may decide to build in phases as funding becomes available. Proposals to make certain stretches of the freeway, or its entire length, a toll road are also under discussion, officials say.
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The route would run roughly parallel to State Route 18 and State Highway 138, also known as Pearblossom Highway. Congestion is a problem on Highway 138 thanks to big rigs, commuters and travelers to Las Vegas.
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SoCal ping
How many lanes?
Traveled numerous times on Pearblossom Highway. It was the break between the northern LA freeway and the super fast freeway to Vegas.
Wait a frickin minute. Jerry is building a high speed train in the desert right now. Why didn’t he build a high speed train from the desert to LA? Oh too easy.
Finally, a California transportation project that is actually needed.
Palmdale and Lancaster have seen their populations surge
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Gang/illegal infestation.
High speed road doesn’t sound as sexy to socialist utopian corporate connect planners as High speed rail.
Yup. And they are building the next generation strategic bomber.
Smart gang-bangers.
Proposals to make certain stretches of the freeway, or its entire length, a toll road
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Good
Yup. If it isn’t what they regard as “European,” they aren’t interested.
Still waiting for those flying cars they promised back in the ‘60s.
1 HOV, 1 truck, 1 auto and six bike lanes.
So now we can add sales tax dollars to the state increase in gasoline taxes, toll roads, increased car registration fees, and the much talked about plan to start taxing by miles driven.
Pretty soon (if they haven’t already) they’ll establish a sex tax so that you have to pay the state to have relations with your spouse, because revenue is so lacking when it comes to the cost of roads.
And besides, all the wear and tear brought on my massive numbers of illegal aliens, who cares if they can’t afford to pay more. They deserve to have decent roads to drive on.
It would be interesting to know what percentage of the cars on the road during rush rush our in Southern California, are being driven by illegal immigrants.
How would it effect our drive, to have one in every 4-5 cars off the road, when the illegals repatriate?
We don’t need new roads. We need the free-loaders to vacate. NOW!
Whew, for a minute I thought they were going to give the taxpaying citizens a new freeway to help with the ghastly commutes. I would have been stunned with shock.
VEGAS!!!
...packing bags and heading to Newark Airport...
It would be interesting to know what percentage of the cars on the road during rush rush our in Southern California, are being driven by illegal immigrants.
L.A. County has never joined the northern end of the 710 freeway to the southern end of the 210 freeway.
Those two terminal ends are only miles apart, and should have been linked decades ago.
Why weren’t they? Because those few miles run through the heart of South Pasadena - some of the priciest real estate in SoCal.
I have a friend in the Adelanto area. Oh my goodness. Looks like all of South Central just unpacked.
This person moved to the area. They dropped off some of their belongings. They hadn’t even been in the home for one night yet, and all their belongings were stolen.
After a year or so, they moved.
After they moved in to the new home, they realized the home on one side of their property was a half-way house for ex-cons.
With a young female in the home, this would have been nice to know up front.
Parasites everywhere...
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