Comments so far on this story:

1. PQ92129 wrote on May 1, 2008 11:07 AM:
"SANDAG: Build Motorcycle lanes. With gas prices and the smaller footprint of a bike, more people will ride. Most don't ride because the highways are a warzone for motorcycles. A much better alternative than pigs! :-)"

2. Christopher Hall wrote on May 1, 2008 5:40 PM:
"Reverse Reality is the world where the PR/ government/ corporate folks say the opposite of what is true or will happen. For instance, SANDAG wants to make certain decisions on transit planning that will only get public support if the public thinks things are going to be just fine and dandy. SANDAG tells everybody we'll see a decrease in traffic congestion so they can be left alone to contract for more unhelpful solutions that are highly profitable and politically rewarding. When it turns out that congestion is much worse and they were lying all along, SANDAG appointees will have moved on and a new group of members will be crying disaster, thereby justifying draconian measures and contracting with Haliburton-like companies to solve the SoCal Transit disaster."

3. Thomas Baer wrote on May 1, 2008 8:48 PM:
"Christoper Hall has it wrong and the media has fallen in to a trap and become co-conspirators to the ridiculous notion that more highway lanes will solve congestion. SANDAG is know lead by Gary Gallegos, ex-Caltrans District Chief. SANDAG is a highway builder and that is all they want to do. They give transit and other alternative modes face time only. By forwarding a ridulous notion they knew they'd get backlash. And by result, knew they'd be rdirected to focus on the very thing they want to do. The silly thing is, more roadways generate more traffic use. It does not mitigate congestion. Backweards thinking results in backwardsresults."

4. Christopher Hall wrote on May 2, 2008 8:44 AM:
"Thomas -- I said what you said here: 'By forwarding a ridulous notion they knew they'd get backlash. And by result, knew they'd be rdirected to focus on the very thing they want to do.' // Perhaps my reading of the lying B*stards is that the public would believe them -- here, you give more credit to the public and expect a backlash. // And, I agree 100% about the need for public transit and the failed notion that building more lanes and roads will solve congestion -- they never do, they just fill up with cars like water. // Thomas we couldn't be more on the same page -- I said SANDAG wants 'to be left alone to contract for more unhelpful solutions that are highly profitable and politically rewarding.' This means SANDAG wants to build more lanes and roads, a solution that only works for the profiteers."

5. Walt wrote on May 4, 2008 6:00 PM:
"Thomas and Christopher: I guess you have not heard SANDAG for 20 year has been putting more than 1/3 the total transportation budget into mass transit, and absorbed fewer than 2% of riders. Meanwhile for lack of funds to keep up with public's overwhelming need for roads, cost of congestion in 10 years has increased by a factor of 10 to $1.7 billion/year. Growth alone in daily road traffic in two years exceeds the total carried by mass transit. Do you really want to increase that mismatch?"

6. jr wrote on May 5, 2008 12:12 PM:
"Have Disney talk to Sea World and run a elevated monorail down the middle of I-5. It would be just another amusement park ride and get the tourist off the highway!"