Issue Position: Roads

Issue Position

Building high-speed trains and toll roads does nothing to help the majority of our residents to get from their homes to their jobs and back home again. For those of us who live in the real world, we know that the way to solve a problem is to (1) identify the specific problem, (2) identify specific solution options to sole the specific problem, (3) calculate the cost to implement the best solution to the problem, and (4) identify the source of the money to solve the problem. Unfortunately, theorists like Jose Medina and his Sacramento friends clearly believe that they will be able to find solutions if they first take your money; that is why Mr. Medina and his friends voted in support of the "gas tax." As a person who owns a gas station, I deal first-hand with the frustrations of people who spend hours commuting through congestion on a daily basis. I am keenly aware that we need solutions to get us on-and- off the 91 Freeway, the 215 Freeway, and the 60 Freeway as smoothly and quickly as possible. It is time that you have a representative whose knowledge about the impact traffic jams and bad roads has on our community comes from actual experience rather than something written in a textbook by someone who never dealt with "rush hour" traffic on a regular basis.

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