New spending should not include highways or feed our car addiction, PIRG says
These vanquished “boondoggles” appear in the “victory” column:
— And the demise of the “High Desert Freeway,” an $8 billion, 63-mile project that aimed to connect L.A. County’s Palmdale and Lancaster with San Bernardino County’s Victorville, Apple Valley and Adelanto. The 405 expansion “is based on estimates of dramatic traffic increases that are both unrealistic, and that far exceed real use trends,” PIRG says. “Expanding the highway, however, could very well bring many of those who currently avoid the 405 due to congestion back to the highway — generating new traffic that causes congestion to return.
In 2016, the last year for which detailed data is available, federal, state and local governments spent $27.6 billion expanding the highway system — including new roads and bridges and widening existing roads — “sucking money away from road repair, transit and other local needs.” These federal dollars could be spent fixing aging roads, making streets safer and making it easier to travel on public transit, by bike or on foot, PIRG said — or they could be spent building and expanding highways.
Crews use a machine to make sure the tracks are true as they work on the first set of rails being placed for the OC Streetcar near the intersection of Santa Ana Boulevard and Bristol Street in Santa Ana, CA, on Tuesday, December 15, 2020.The workers are working westbound toward Raitt Street. The OC Streetcar will run on just over 4 miles of track in each direction through Santa Ana and Garden Grove. It is scheduled to begin testing and operations in 2022.
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