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February 2, 2012
OCTA Thanks Congress for Transportation Bill Language Friendly to Finishing Toll Road
When one author praises another on a book jacket, and the second author then does the same on the first author's tome, that's logrolling. It's a practice that's also common among academics and movie critics. In politics, logrolling happens when political favors are exchanged, even among members o ... More >>
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November 23, 2011
Bus Stolen and Then Found in San Clemente
An Orange County Transportation Authority (OCTA) bus was found in San Clemente less than an hour after someone stole it Tuesday afternoon.No word on whether a terrorist had attached a bomb that would explode if it reached speeds under 30 mph.
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June 15, 2011
OCTA Promotes 'Dump The Pump' Week, Gives Free Breakfast Tomorrow to Those Who (Gasp!) Leave Their Cars At Home
More essential than personal trainers and trust funds in this county are our beloved cars. Bus passes, Google's walking directions, Metrolink--these funny words, what do they mean? And yet the folks at Orange County Transportation Authority (bless their hearts) are taking on the noble ... More >>
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February 4, 2011
[UPDATED/CLARIFIED] OCTA's Will Kempton and Irvine Ranch Water's Paul D. Jones II (and Santa Margarita Water's John J. Schatz) Top Special-District Executive Salaries List
OCTAKemptonUPDATE/CLARIFICATION, FEB. 4, 9:23 A.M.: The Orange County Transportation Authority (OCTA) clarified for the Weekly why its CEO Will Kempton lands at the No. 2 spot on a state-compiled list of top executive salaries from California special districts.It's not Kempton's salary, the OCTA ... More >>
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January 28, 2011
[UPDATED] James Edward Norkin Is NOT John Belushi, According to Authorities Holding the Sex Offender
UPDATE, JAN. 28, 7:08 P.M.: A sex-offender parolee and John Belushi look-alike was sentenced today to five years in state prison for molesting a 14-year-old girl on an Orange County Transportation Authority (OCTA) bus in front of her friends. Get this: At the time of the offense, the genius was ... More >>
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December 29, 2010
Smashed On New Year's Eve? AAA Will 'Tipsy Tow' You And Your Car Home For Free
If you don't have someone to kiss when the clock strikes midnight, you may want to consider the tow truck operators from the Auto Club of Southern California, whom on New Year's Eve, have the noble responsibility of driving your drunk asses home. Just call AAA's "Tipsy Tow" hotline at ... More >>
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September 28, 2010
Inaugural CleanTech OC Conference Should Have Been Better Attended
If attendees took anything other than swag away from the inaugural CleanTech OC Conference & Expo in Irvine Monday, it was this: the green revolution is back, baby. After a red hot 2008, the clean technology industry was battered for a spell by the recession, but banks are back to lending, ve ... More >>
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June 10, 2010
James Norkin is NOT John Belushi, According to Authorities Holding the Sex Offender
Believe it or not, that is not John Belushi in the photo released by the Orange County Sheriff's Department in connection with a case involving a man who allegedly touched a teenage girl in a sexual manner aboard a bus in South County.We stand unconvinced. Not only would one imagine Belushi weari ... More >>
Columns
January 28, 2010
Letters from OC Weekly Readers
Believe it or not, that is not John Belushi in the photo released by the Orange County Sheriff's Department in connection with a case involving a man who allegedly touched a teenage girl in a sexual manner aboard a bus in South County.We stand unconvinced. Not only would one imagine Belushi weari ... More >>
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January 19, 2010
OC Impacts Some of Country's Worst Commutes
No stretch of Orange County freeway winds up on The Daily Beast list of America's 75 worst commutes, but vehicles originating from, destined for or passing through here certainly contribute to three of those bad drives--including the No. 1 place holder.
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December 17, 2009
Stuff-a-Bus
Honda Center
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November 3, 2009
Settlement Would Have Toll Roads Forgiving $40 Million in Fines, Doling Out $1.4 Million to Drivers
Facebook.com/TheTollRoads"Thank you, please come again."Were it not for being stuck in traffic, this Time Winder would have had this yesterday like the Los Angeles Times did, but Orange County's toll road agencies would forgive $40 million in fines and pay $1.4 million to drivers who claim they w ... More >>
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June 11, 2009
Follow the Bouncing High-Speed Trains
Rendering of new Anaheim transportation hub, awaiting whatever comes its way.Harry Reid (D-Nevada), who had earlier seemed to be the biggest supporter in the U.S. Senate for a magnetic-levitation (Maglev) train from Las Vegas to Anaheim, is now pooh-poohing such a system, favoring instead a high-spe ... More >>
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April 10, 2009
It's a Quick Read 30
Orange County Register: Fans gathered around a makeshift memorial outside Angel Stadium to honor pitcher Nick Adenhart, who died in a car accident. . . . A woman driving a car with a baby aboard was shot and killed in Santa Ana after leading police on a high-speed chase that began in Buena Park ... More >>
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March 27, 2009
It's a Quick Read 21
Orange County Register: It's not the happiest place on Earth today, as Disneyland begins laying off back-office employees and telling employees of a Paradise Pier Hotel restaurant it will close. . . . Motivational speaker Gary Shawkey was booked into Orange County Jail on murder charges after s ... More >>
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March 6, 2009
Art Leahy Leaves OCTA for LA Metro: Good Riddance
News item: Art Leahy, who has led the Orange County Transportation Authority for eight years, accepted an offer to head Los Angeles County's Metro - a transit agency with a $3.4 billion budget. (Courtesy of the Orange County Register) Be careful what you wish for, LA ... *The NOAA, which has ju ... More >>
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December 22, 2008
The Return of Toll Road Foister Jerry Amante
Here were told you about our question to Tustin City Councilman Jerry Amante, the chairman of the Orange County Transportation Authority, the Transportation Corridor System Board of Directors and the Foothill/Eastern Transportation Corridor Agency (TCA) who was all over the news last week after Comm ... More >>
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June 17, 2008
Free Bus Passes
The gas prices nowadays stink to high heaven. So The Orange County Transportation Authority has decided to encourage people to leave their cars at home by offering free one-day bus passes during Dump the Pump week, June 16 - 20. That's right folks. Bus passes. Absolutely free of charge. "But why?" ... More >>
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September 18, 2007
Tuesday's Headlines & Surprises: Anaheim Subsidizes Private Tennis Club
Slow Road to China: Officials at the Orange County Transportation Authority (OCTA) are puzzled as to why a private construction company is repeatedly missing deadlines to finish the $550-million road-widening project, according to a story by Ellyn Pak at the Register. The delays aren't just costing ... More >>
Blogs
July 15, 2007
Sunday's Headlines & Surprises
John Wayne and the Grey, er, Wild Goose: Greg Aragon reports that John Wayne's 1942 yacht, Wild Goose, remains a work horse tour boat for Hornblower Cruises & Events in the area and that the long dead actor's spiritual presence is aboard. (If dying doesn't change bad habits, I presume he's still in ... More >>
Blogs
July 10, 2007
Tuesday's Headlines & Surprises
Top U.S. Secrets to Crooks, Idiots and Dopers: The Hill newspaper in Washington, D.C., reports this morning that the Pentagon, the guys running the Iraq War, now want Congress to allow national security clearances for government employees who are “ex-convicts, drug addicts and mentally incompeten ... More >>
Blogs
April 6, 2007
Freeway far from free
Good Friday is traditionally a day for Christians to reflect on the nature of sacrifice, so perhaps it's only fitting that today is the day that the Orange County Transportation Authority (OCTA) expects you to begin to dig deeper into your wallet to use the 91 Freeway. The toll for traveling e ... More >>
Columns
November 23, 2006
Diary of a Mad County
Nov. 15 - Nov. 21
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September 22, 2005
Diary of a Mad County
Nov. 15 - Nov. 21
Columns
August 25, 2005
Diary of a Mad County
Nov. 15 - Nov. 21
News
March 3, 2005
Get On the Bus But Not You. Or You. Or You
OCTAs U-Pass program lets some students ride for free. Why not all?
Features
February 17, 2005
Next Stop: Immobility
An A to Z Guide to Surviving the Death/Pause/Sunshine of the CenterLine
News
October 14, 2004
Broadwater Under the Bridge
While Garden Grove mayor talked traffic, his opponent for supervisor helped solve it
Columns
October 7, 2004
Diary of a Mad County
While Garden Grove mayor talked traffic, his opponent for supervisor helped solve it
Columns
December 11, 2003
LOVE THAT BOB
While Garden Grove mayor talked traffic, his opponent for supervisor helped solve it
Columns
October 23, 2003
Frozen Assets
While Garden Grove mayor talked traffic, his opponent for supervisor helped solve it
News
August 21, 2003
Fear Factor
The four horsemen of the suburban apocalypse
News
August 7, 2003
Track Record
A CenterLine contractors resume includes Bostons notorius big dig
News
July 31, 2003
Lite Rail
A CenterLine contractors resume includes Bostons notorius big dig
Columns
February 6, 2003
Insert Latest California GOP Racist Comment Here
A CenterLine contractors resume includes Bostons notorius big dig
Features
January 2, 2003
2002: Diary of a Mad Year
A CenterLine contractors resume includes Bostons notorius big dig
Columns
November 14, 2002
Diary of a Mad County
A CenterLine contractors resume includes Bostons notorius big dig
Columns
July 18, 2002
Lost Highway
Cmon down to Jims World of Pain Motors!
Columns
June 13, 2002
Diary of a Mad County
Cmon down to Jims World of Pain Motors!
Columns
May 9, 2002
Diary of a Mad County
Cmon down to Jims World of Pain Motors!
Columns
January 31, 2002
Diary of a Mad County
Cmon down to Jims World of Pain Motors!
Columns
July 12, 2001
I Went to My Kids Soccer Game and an English Soccer Game Broke Out
Cmon down to Jims World of Pain Motors!
Columns
July 20, 2000
Weenie Roast
Cmon down to Jims World of Pain Motors!
Columns
June 8, 2000
Scrubbing Bubbles
Cmon down to Jims World of Pain Motors!
News
September 9, 1999
Derailed
OCTAs attempt to bring out the benefits of a $2 billion light-rail system crashes at UC Irvine
Columns
March 25, 1999
Beach Boulevard Breakdown
A history of OC's infamous thoroughfare
Columns
February 18, 1999
Letters
A history of OC's infamous thoroughfare
Columns
January 21, 1999
Letters to the Editor 1/15/99
A history of OC's infamous thoroughfare
Columns
December 31, 1998
Letters
A history of OC's infamous thoroughfare
Columns
November 19, 1998
The Weekly's Week in Review
A history of OC's infamous thoroughfare
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