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SB Mayor, Council and Commissioners allowed the Sandman Inn to be replaced with multi-story condos with inadequate parking.

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should promote traffic flow, not deconstruct it.

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Bikes can park anywhere?

It depends on enforcement choices.

Recreational Biking Is Not Commuting

Council and Supervisors misrepresent traffic data to promote failed policy.

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SONAR from Santa Ynez Valley is questioning the expensive, misaligned Santa Ynez River Trail project near Fjord Drive and private park property behind homes.

"Thrive" means dying at 60? City with rapidly degenerated traffic planning and other red tape loses 7000 person HQ project, and "Thrive Center" CEO dies at 60. What does that say for corporate medicine and for over-regulated cities' economic futures? We predict that over-regulated cities and their regressive traffic planning will die an early death also.

Santa Maria has nearly the lowest auto insurance rates in the State of California. This is because of lower accident payout rates. It also has wide streets, with plenty of vehicle capacity and sight distance. Roads are in good condition, with few bushy medians, rare bulbouts and roundabouts and pedestrians and bicyclist commuters seem to stay on the side streets, which also have 1950's traffic design - from the era of "the American Dream". Contrast that with the aggressive, anti-car traffic planning of Santa Barbara and Goleta.

High-speed rail contractor is accused of muzzling employees over true budget and schedule. Jeff Abercrombie, formerly on the California High-Speed Rail Authority, once forced an employee on leave without pay because he photographed construction forbidden by the Fish and Game Permit. HSR is now expected to cost over $80 Billion.

$5 Million for a sidewalk project? Goleta is narrowing streets and building bulbouts in Old Town, when they can't even maintain the existing sidewalks, as their own video shows.

First they let women vote. Then they let them drive. What is this world coming to? Well, that headline should have some people sitting up. The 20th Century had progress in terms of individual transportation freedom, but the 21st Century is turning toward Socialist Transportation Dictatorship. Let's look at what the auto did for women and freedom in the 1900's. At the least, it has allowed them to take care of kids, do shopping and become more social than in the 1800's. (now there is a stereotype for you). Think about it- prior to WWII, few, if any, women drove, and there seldom was more then one car in the household. Driving allowed the "little homemaker" the luxury of buying groceries greater than walking distance from the home. It made carrying goods easier then on the bus, and more timely. The subtle shift in jobs, created by WWII, carried out into the 1950's, and without the auto, many women who started working could not have done so without cars. (Oh dear, is my shirt ironed?) The freedom from distance constraint translated into better wages and job options. The transportation watchdog non-profit, CAB (CarsAreBasic.org), has had multiple women on the Board, and each has made the point that without a personal auto they would have never achieved success. All of them have stated the ownership of their businesses or positions was a direct relation to freedom of choice of travel. Becoming top-level managers in the Santa Barbara School District, owners of a cleaning company, retail goods owners, creation of social organizations, and more was the outcome. Darn, I guess the car-driving Female Mayors of Santa Barbara and Goleta, who promote the destruction of our infrastructure don't get it. It must be time to tell female office holders to get back into the kitchen. Female attorneys? My goodness making court dates and taking depositions at locations far apart! Men should be the only judges. According to the "smart" crowd there should not be enough parking to have both male and female lawyer types. Time to cull the herd and leave cars to men. Then there are those pesky Super Moms. How dare they: a) make a pleasant home, b) get the kids to school before going to work, and c) after school sports! Kind of different when you put it that way isn't it. So the next time you hear destruction of street capacity, added taxes on your auto, and failure to maintain what was once the finest highway system in the Nation, think about it. Do you WOMEN really want to go back to 1940 and the mode choices of travel? Do you WOMEN want to give up the freedom of travel that has enhanced both your and your family lives. If you do then it is time to continue to support anti-car politicians, and watch the price of travel and your choices disappear.

Goleta City is failing to follow the California Environmental Quality Act protocols of analysis and disclosure, and ignoring their own studies, while working to destroy traffic circulation as Santa Barbara has done. CEQA states that if there is a plan that meets goals while being less environmentally destructive, and is less expensive, that the City is required by State Law to implement it. However the City ignored the State Law CEQA requirements, and is getting ready to spend $4 Million Dollars of our tax money to build roundabouts in Old Town Goleta. The Monarch Press quoted Project Engineer James Winslow as saying that, “This project is long overdue." The Monarch falsely states that "The streets in Old Town are 40 to 50 feet wide..." however most streets are actually much narrower. The Monarch states that "They are double and illegally parking thereby blocking access ramps." However the Monarch apparently supports removing more parking space. How can reduction of parking spaces reduce parking congestion? Mayor Paula Perotte said, “Our actions to provide sidewalks for Old Town Goleta demonstrate our commitment to promoting exercise and reducing traffic." With this plan, the only way traffic will be reduced, is by customers not bothering to visit Old Town. Why does the City want people to exercise next to stressed drivers? Local engineers and bicyclists agree that these expensive traffic-clogging features will add danger for cyclists and pedestrians, while destroying the convenience of shopping in Old Town Goleta, driving more customers to the Costco area. To ask questions or complain, please email sidewalks@cityofgoleta.org, or call the Construction Manager at 805-450-7949.

Are Solvang City Council Staff arrogant or stupid enough to place speed humps in their city despite complaints by Fire Department and ambulance companies? Fire trucks (with sensitive water baffles in heavy tanks) and Ambulances (with patients on IVs) will have to be very careful and slow. Patients may die, while the Council Members driving their new SUVs with suspension control will not feel anything. Contact the Solvang City Council here.

For years, Santa Barbara Governments have been wasting our tax money for special projects, while leaving our infrastructure in disrepair, making driving difficult and expensive to try to force mass development. Now the real estate development game is accelerating with SB50, which will allow high-rise projects to be built without community oversight, without parking, with CEQA permit exemptions and Brown Act violations that would land an ordinary homeowner in jail. Isn't it time to stand up to this progressive deterioration of our quality of life?

The media does not report many electric scooter accidents, but injuries are increasing in number, as in this San Diego brain injury.

Electric scooter accidents continue to rise as cities fail to enforce traffic laws. This story reports a serious injury in Florida, resulting in lawsuit against Lime

From a "Green Living" website, an article on why people do not like mass transit.

How Did New York's Trains Get so Bad? Why are Britain’s trains so bad?

Goleta City Staff in 2019 admitted that they have not done a baseline study from the beginning of the City till present. Goleta Traffic Planning is "pie in the sky" planning based upon what they cannot prove. They failed with the West Hollister multi-modal path, and now want to continue with millions of dollars of taxpayer money for more failure.

(Excerpt from Michael Overall: Why Tulsa commuters still prefer cars over mass transit. ) The average American driver spends nearly 25 minutes commuting to work. And in Tulsa, the average commute drops 16 percent to just 21 minutes. The average bus rider, however, takes even longer to get to work — 45 minutes nationally and 39.5 minutes in Tulsa. Subways and commuter rail systems, for cities that have them, speed things up a little, but still take longer on average than your own car. So, apparently, people drive to work because it’s still the fastest way to get there. But these data points, like all data, come with a few caveats. For one thing, the Census doesn’t account for distance. So mass transit users might be taking longer to get to work because they have farther to travel. If you look just at the numbers, walking appears to be the fastest way to get to work — Tulsans who commute on foot take only 11.5 minutes, on average. But, of course, they aren’t coming from Broken Arrow. For another, the Census doesn’t measure stress levels. Personally, if I had to go through the nightmare of the BA Expressway every day, I’d rather do it while sitting back and reading a good book. Or better yet, reading the newspaper. But to the average commuter, that might sound like an argument for self-driving cars, not for mass transit.

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