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SNARL TAMERS: County transportation officials say they’re...

By Jerry Hicks, Helene Elliott and Davan Maharaj
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SNARL TAMERS: County transportation officials say they’re pleased at the success of incentives aimed at getting cars out of the construction zones on the Santa Ana and Riverside freeways. Offers include free gasoline vouchers, free bus tickets and discount rail passes for people who sign up to share rides during peak hours. The result, since April, 1990: 1,770 fewer vehicles on the road daily and almost 600 new car and van pools formed. . . . “It’s well beyond our goal,” says spokeswoman Mona Ziada.

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Helene Elliott

Helene Elliott was with the Los Angeles Times’ Sports department from 1989 to 2024, first as a staff writer and then, starting in 2006, as a columnist. She became the first female journalist to be honored with a plaque in the Hall of Fame of a major professional sport as the 2005 winner of the Hockey Hall of Fame’s Elmer Ferguson Award, awarded to writers “who have brought honor to journalism and to hockey.” A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., and graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, she has covered 18 Olympics.

Davan Maharaj

As editor of the Los Angeles Times Media Group from 2011-17, Davan Maharaj oversaw the largest daily newsgathering organization in the West.

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