Measure M’s Impact on County’s Traffic, Taxes

I lived in Glendale when our first freeway, the Arroyo Seco Parkway, was built and I moved into Orange County at a time when the Santa Ana Freeway stopped at Imperial Highway. What I have learned over these years is that freeways do nothing to solve the traffic problem. On the contrary, traffic expands to fill the lanes available.

It is obvious that building more freeways is an exercise in futility and that we should be directing the major thrust of our traffic-solving effort toward mass transit. Yet, Proposition M allocates several times as much money to freeway development as it does to mass transit. Therefore, I shall vote against Proposition M. If the amount now proposed for freeways were switched with the amount proposed for mass transit, I would then vote for Proposition M. Our traffic mess needs solving, but freeways will not do the job and I see no point in wasting money on a futile effort.

JUANITA MATASSA

Santa Ana