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I am increasingly getting annoyed when the budget is not passed on time.  It have been going on since Governor Davis administration.  So I have decided to send the letter to the Governor and my local assemblymen as follows:

Michael Madden
XXXXXXXXXXXXXx
Whittier, CA 90605-XXXX

August 17, 2008

The Honorable Arnold Schwarzenegger
Governor of California
State Capitol Building
Sacramento, CA 95814

Re: Support Conference Committee Budget Report (AB1781) Dear Governor Schwarzenegger:

Time is running out for our students and schools. With the new school year approaching, our students and their education can’t afford to wait any longer. In order to open the door to learning, schools need the funding and resources to start the school year. Please put partisan politics aside and support the Conference Committee Budget, AB 1781, which closes tax loopholes and increases revenues to protect public education and other vital services.

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Alot of us have been talking about voting current lawmakers out because they could not pass the budget which is nearly 2 months overdue and the Governor have given it to the lawmakers in January which they had 6 months to work on it which is very unacceptable. The state is suffering because of the ineffective lawmakers so the ineffective lawmakers must be removed from the office and replaced with actually working lawmakers. If you want to keep your job, get the budget passed and turn this state around into prosperity!!!

Truly yours,

Michael Madden

Which is also sent to:

The Honorable Ronald S. Calderon
California Senate
California State Senate
Sacramento, CA 95814

The Honorable Charles M. Calderon
California Assembly
PO Box 942849
Sacramento, CA 94249-0058

I hope they will realize that their jobs are on the hands of california voters.

If you want your voice being heard and you are the california resident and is the voter, then go to http://www.cta.org/issues/current/Budget_Crisis_2008-09.htm to send or call your local lawmaker!

The Federal Government have offered $213 Million dollars to Los Angeles‘ Transportion Department which is called MTA (Metropolitan Transportation Authority) ONLY if MTA wants to convert some carpool lanes into the toll lanes in 3 of most busiest freeways which are I-10, I-210, and I-110.  Will the congestion pricing help to reduce the congestion ? Sure it will discourage the motorists from using the toll lane which results the worsening congrestion in general purpose lanes as it already happened at Orange County and their CA-91 freeway that is equipped with 2 lanes (3 lanes in some streaches) toll lanes which already have resulted bumper-to-bumper traffic just like if its general purpose traffic congestion!  My question is that, why do you want to waste the money if it only save you probably 15 to 20 minutes from the commute if its $10 for a 10 mile toll at the peak times ?  I find it ridicious! What will really reduce the strain in the traffic congestion is to really invest into the mass transit, I mean, really heavily aggressively invest into it and grow the mass transit network to everywhere where the people needs to go including LAX (LAX does not have the reliable high speed mass transit at this moment of typing the post.)  Having high speed mass transit will help, take a look at New York City, Chicago, they are moving really well because they have highly reliable mass transit unlike Los Angeles.  So, the mass transit is deseperately needed, not just buses alone, I mean we need subways, el-trains, high speed rails, more light rails.

As the projected population will be at 60 million people living in California by the year 2050 which worries the transportion authorities because they know that the roads and highways won’t have enough capacity to handle the large number of population. We have been widening our freeways for decades and it is not yet giving any reliefs as the delays on the road have been increasing dramatically. So therefore, some of the city council people in Los Angeles are calling for a study for the proposed rail and subways. However, I am against to those proposed rail and subways since we already have the railways around the county and its not being fully utilized as the commuters are using their own personal automobiles as the primary transportion choice since the mass transportion does not take us to the places within the reasonable time frame as I have been hearing the complainments about the bus ride time can easily rack up as much as 3 hours for a mere 20 mile drive via personal automobile while it takes up nearly 40 miles by bus because the bus system does not have the effective and direct route system where you can do with a personal automobile where it will only take between 30 minutes to a hour depending on the traffic conditions.

In order to really to show the reduce in the traffic congestion is to institute the new ride-share program with the potential large employers to encourage their employees to take up the light rail from the major point to another major point (i.e Los Angeles to Santa Ana/Anaheim or Los Angeles to Riverside/Pomona) as it will remove a fairly large numbers of cars off from the traffic grid as the problem lays that many motorists drive more than 15 miles per way from home to their work site. Also, restrict the freight truck traffic flow as it is also the factor to the overly congested traffic grids and encourage the freight trucks to be driven during the off peak hours to allow the traffic infrastructure to fully utilize the commuters as the Times Magazine shows the study of the freight trucks have taken up as much as 40% of the traffic infrastructure capacity! So instead of the excessive trucking, encourage the use of the heavy rail for the freight transportion where it will lower the number of trucks on the roads by giving some kind of tax credits to the industries that are opting for the heavy rail instead of trucking as well as the large employers that institutes the improved ride-share program. That would save taxpayers from paying excessive waste of money in billions of dollars as well as floating the bonds could be prevented for those unnecessary freeway widening once you tackle the source of the problem!