Road Sage
Re “Group Proposes Ballot Measure to Ease Traffic,” Aug. 31: Anti-road activists are not satisfied with having essentially stopped all new highway development plans in the state for the next several decades. Now they want to divert sales tax on new automobiles to fund bus and rail projects as well as the Great Park [Irvine’s plan for the former El Toro Marine base].
The environmental coalition sponsoring the ballot measure claims that these are traffic-congestion-relief projects. But the facts are that bus and expensive rail projects are failures at relieving congestion. And park projects are even more irrelevant to congestion.
The truth is that the environmentalists will use any ploy to divert money from highway programs to ensure that traffic will get worse. That is the only way to make transit look better. And the poor new-car buyer will get a double whammy--a new auto stuck in the traffic his or her taxes helped create.
Dave Mootchnik
Huntington Beach
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