Steve Lopez of the Los Angeles Times did a column yesterday Traffic peril towers over us; send your gripes, solutions.
He's got a great blog www.latimes.com/bottleneck
It got me thinking about my possible solutions:
Tax incentives for employers who encourage employees to work from home.
Tax incentives for people in over-populated L.A. County to have no more than one child.
Tax incentives for people in over-populated L.A. County to leave.
Tax on gas, cigarettes, and other polluting industries, that go directly to subway fund. Design and build a subway system that includes stops in Downtown (Music Center and Staples) Beverly Hills, Century City, Westwood, and Santa Monica.
Question and prosecute, or fire, companies that do environmental impact studies, which are completely erroneous in their findings, as if they are on the developers side, not the facts of environmental impacts.
Hire environmental consultants with integrity.
Hire city planners with integrity.
Hire regulators with integrity.
Case in point: 483 new condos are being built in over-crowded Century City. This project was approved after an environmental impact report said the building wouldn't cause more traffic. Any five year old would know otherwise. Let alone a wise adult. Personally, I no longer go to Century City because of one reason, and one reason only.
Traffic.
I used to go to the Music Center almost every Saturday night. I haven't done that in years due to traffic. My world became so small and polluted, living in over-crowded Los Angeles that I started this blog, documenting my travels, toward eventually finding a new home.
I also evolved my business to specialize in environmental issues. I write environmental progress reports for companies that want to publicize their operational and managerial changes that positively impact the environment. If you're interested to learn more: www.environmentalprogressreports.com
