Q: I just lately traveled from my house in Santa Clara to Los Angeles by way of Interstate 5. Is that this the very best we are able to do? We've 40 million individuals on this state, and but we've got solely two lanes of visitors in every route.
How pathetic is that this? Mixing all of the vehicles and vehicles on these two lanes is tantamount to malfeasance. Gov. Gavin Newsom and different elected officers needs to be ashamed.
Kevin Manning, Santa Clara
A: Off we go on I-5. And I provide a ray of hope. The California Transportation Fee just lately elected Lee Ann Keen as its chair and Carl Guardino as its vice chair. Each could also be extra receptive to pushing for the widening of I-5. Keen comes from the San Joaquin Valley and Guardino from Santa Clara County.
Q: The quickest repair is to get California out of the Seventies and permit vehicles to journey 60 or 65 mph within the 70-mph zones on Interstate I-5. Backups and unsafe situations are created by the vast differential in pace, typically when one truck going 55 is being handed by one other truck at 58 mph.
Maybe California can get its head out of its you-know-where and notice that every one different Western states permit vehicles to go sooner than 55. This might cowl most likely 75% of the issues with driving I-5.
J. Rix
A: The pace restrict is not going to be raised until the freeway is widened. Even then, chances are high slim.
Q: It appears past apparent that I-5 needs to be expanded to 3 (or, higher but, 4) lanes in every route. There are such a lot of causes this is sensible.
With out moving into non secular discussions about high-speed rail, it's clear I'll have died of previous age earlier than HSR is accomplished if, the truth is, it's ever accomplished. Plus high-speed rail doesn't take care of the issue of transferring freight between Los Angeles and San Francisco.
Jimmy Sutton, Irvine
A: You might be proper. Excessive-speed rail is approach delayed, at a price that's already billions greater than was anticipated. A lot of the visitors that now makes use of I-5 is not going to convert to a commuter-type practice when it's obtainable.
Q: Studying all of the feedback about including a 3rd lane to I-5, I've a dumb query: When has including a lane ever diminished congestion? Appears to me that the roads with probably the most lanes are at all times probably the most congested.
Bob Burns, Saratoga
A: Usually I'd agree with you, however I-5 is a distinct beast. Not sufficient lanes, a ton of huge rigs and speeds that may range wildly up and down the concrete backbone between northern and southern California.
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