Why has the County of Governments never responded to the
Caltrans District 5 draft 20-year transportation plan for the
Central California Coast region?
Editor,
Why has the County of Governments never responded to the Caltrans District 5 draft 20-year transportation plan for the Central California Coast region? Why did they never responded to the AMBAG three-county transportation plan last June, or produce the draft San Benito County five-year regional transportation plan for 2005 that their executive director promised would be released by the end of March?
What on earth is COG doing? Abdicating its responsibility to perform transport planning for the county? No wonder our air quality is deteriorating: Empty buses polluting and fouling our air so that political “pork” can be delivered by local elected leaders to SEIU and public-sector union members who derive their money operating empty public transit.
There has not been one effort to restore intermodal facilities for our No. 1 industry, ag, even though it takes 8,000 subcompact autos to make as much pollution as comes from one fully loaded big-rig at today’s GVW (and Congress is getting ready to increase our GVW to “harmonize” with our NAFTA partners). Caveat viator!
Joseph P. Thompson, Tres Pinos
