This is no way to run a toll road. Last fall, it was alleged that the San Diego Association of Government operations of the State Route 125 toll road system was riddled with errors, leading to wrong charges, diverted driver...
It’s in the job title: Planner. Most government planners – pretty much the transport and housing sectors are what we are discussing today – became planners to meet their personal need to impose order on chaos, to improve society, and,...
With the inexorable and inescapable plod only a government agency can achieve, LA METRO’s plan to tax people as they drive has passed another milestone: the Traffic Reduction Study initiated in 2019 to study, well, traffic reduction has completed its...
After nearly five years with the agency, Hasan Ikhrata will be leaving his CEO spot at the San Diego Association of Governments. Ikhrata, a longtime fixture of southern California transportation and planning sub-culture, announced he is resigning effective December 29...
The 15-minute city (FMC) – a neat idea, a new way to control the populace, a trendy blip in the public planning industry, a long-term insidious scheme – all, some, or none of these? One thing is true, a thing...
So the Los Angeles Times ran a story today all about possible “congestion pricing” schemes coming soon to certain roads in the LA area soon. While the article lauds the social engineering aspect of the concept – even quoting one...
It seems as if anything can be done – truly anything – if it is in the name of safety. From the pandemic to peanut butter, as long as a new rule, regulation, mandate, dictate is couched in the language...