Southland Congestion

“Move Jobs to Workers and Clear Freeways”(Op-Ed Page, Feb. 8) is an outstanding theory which is fatally flawed. Mark Pisano, the executive director, and Don Griffin, the president, of the Southern California Assn. of Governments and the authors of this column, need to start seeing the whole forest instead of just a few trees. They state that their solution if fully implemented will bring us traffic volumes in 2010 that are equivalent to 1984 traffic volumes even with 5 million more people in the region.

Well, that’s great for 2010 if you thought that 1984 traffic volumes were acceptable, but the fact is 1984 traffic volumes were not acceptable. Further, this question able solution will only cost $56 billion and the authors have no idea of where the region is going to get that type of funding.

Clearly what is needed is a multidimensional and creative alternative. Instead of thinking that everything is limited to traveling our overburdened road and highway grid, it is time to create another that will positively impact our neighborhoods, communities, and life styles. Mark and Don, welcome to the Southern California Monorail Project, an intelligently conceived and well-balanced California statewide ballot initiative. We know how much our alternative will cost and we know exactly where the money will come from. We know that our solution will, through historical perspective, more closely balance the jobs to housing imbalance. Finally, our solution answers the problems well beyond 2010.

CRAIG HENDRICKSON

Southern Calif. Monorail Project

Los Angeles