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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.

More than thousands of passengers are being stranded at the originating airport leaving them no where to go as more than 1000 flights have been cancelled for the inspections for wiring and cracks. What will happen to the future of the airline industry as the quality of service continues to decline ? No passengers want to be packed like sardines as the airlines have been adding more sets which gives you lesser leg room. For those of you who works in the airline industry, get your act together or you will never see the profit ever again. If you want the quality of service, go to the little pricey companies like JetBlue, or AirTran instead of those largest carriers.

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Since from my last post there are more news related to the safety of air travel. A gun went off in a USAirways jetliner, a passenger door fell off from the jet during the take off process, AA grounded 45% of their fleets for the safety checks. All those happened in such short period of time between from my last post about the air travel safety to today. I think I will go by car at this moment.

During my childhood days, I always dreamed to fly in one of those jumbo jetliners. It was fun and awesome (prior 9/11). Now ever since after 9/11, the airlines continues to struggle to make the ends meet. Now they are gambling themselves by reducing the maintaince expenses which affects the safety of the aircraft and the passengers. Southwest got issued with the largest safety violations because their 117 aircrafts have missed the safety inspections!!! How scary is that!!! One little block falls off from the aircraft and it might will end up exploding like the concordes ?

Also one American Airlines passenger died because she got refused for the use of the oxygen tank when she as asking for it then finally when she got the tank but the tank was literally empty!   So for you who are working for airlines, do you want your job to be secured, then think twice because we passengers bring you money and pays you and your company so without us you are well out of luck!

Going to the airport with bunch of TSA security rules are a load of BS since there’s no standards so the fun of going to the airport and flying on the airplane have seen its best days and I miss it sorely.

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!