Transportation

Garden Grove Police Hold Sobriety Checkpoint Saturday Night

The Garden Grove Police Department is scheduled to hold a DUI/drivers license checkpoint from 9 p.m. Saturday through 3 a.m. Sunday.Your guess is as good as mine as to where exactly vehicles will be stopped as the agency isn't disclosing the location.

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 >>

Low Pay for Airline Pilots "Threatens" the Country

​A couple months ago, I almost blogged something that claimed regional airline pilots earn an average of $14,000 a year. Believing that to be a typo--pilots are rolling in it, right?--I moved on to something more important, like Octomom boxing an East Coast skank.However, the nonprofit investigati ... More >>

Airline Passengers Voice Displeasure Online

​With the price of gasoline soaring past $4 per gallon, many summer vacationers are scouting the Interwebs for deals on cheap flights.But that's not the only air travel-related data you'll find online. There are also the results of a new survey that show a large portion of flyers are dissatisfied ... More >>

How Do You Fill the Empty Toll Roads? Raffles!

Rush hour​The country's economic woes have reportedly extended to Orange County's toll roads, where ridership is down as once-paying drivers opt to ply the public lanes and apply the savings to offset rising gasoline prices.The agencies that operate the toll roads have responded with raffles and d ... More >>

Santa Ana Has a Desire Named Streetcar

​An interstate high-speed train that would stop in Anaheim and another linking the town that Walt Disney built with the town the mob built (Las Vegas) get all the media attention, but a California Planning & Development Report article claims slow poky streetcars will be online up and down the ... More >>

Night-Owl Bus Riders Face the End of the Line

OCTA Committee Recommends Slightly Less Painful Bus Cuts--For Now

WikicommonsBye bye buses.​County Supervisor Patricia Bates may have said it best today: "You can't send these people off a cliff, in a bus."The remark came amidst some low-heat sparring between her and Tustin Mayor Pro Tem Jerry Amante at this morning's meeting of the OCTA Finance and Administrati ... More >>

Transit Activists to Pitch Ways to Save OCTA Bus Routes

​More than 60 people got up and spoke at Monday's board meeting for the Orange County Transit Authority. Pacific Progressive has the run-down: It was a diverse group of people telling OCTA how detrimental further cuts to the OC bus system would be.It's a sticky issue. Facing a steep decline in sal ... More >>

SeatGuru Lobbies for More Airline Loos

SeatGuru.com is pooh-poohing the airline industry over "a going concern": customers having to wait in line for restrooms at 30,000 feet.  The online resource for air travelers calls this "bladder abuse." "Airlines with too few bathrooms per passenge ... More >>

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 >>

Toll Road "Bailout" Request Blasted

Groups that have banded together to fight the 241 toll road extension through San Onofre State Park today accused the private agencies that operate Orange County's financially troubled network of toll roads of seeking a $1.1 billion federal bailout. The Transportation Corridor Systems (TCS) -- a jo ... More >>

[Aural Reports] Nightlife Maven Sean Francis' Need for Speed Led Him to Create Spare the Air Fest

They Didn't Pave Paradise: The top 10 reasons why the Foothill South Toll Road extension failed

Obey My Jowls!

Below is a video of Ken Calvert on his support of the 241 Toll Road. Nevermind that his reputation is on the line. Nevermind that he worked to garner earmarks (see Of Pork and Ken, Feb. 16 2006) so that taxpayer money could be spent on "environmental studies" for the toll roads - millions upon milli ... More >>

241 Toll Road Delayed Indefinitely

The 241 Foothill-South Toll Road extension that would have run through San Onofre State Park endangering wild life and costing tax payers $10 million, has been delayed indefinitely, according to Congressman Ken Calvert. In the Congressman's words, "thanks to Reps. Susan Davis and Loretta Sanchez ( ... More >>

New poll shows mixed bag on 241 toll extension

Photo by Craig Coppola/Courtesy Surfrider. A poll released this morning shows that OC voters are generally in favor of more toll roads, but not when they go through protected state parks. The poll, which was financed by the California State Parks Foundation, asked 400 voters from each of ... More >>

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 >>

A Measure of Titanic Proportions

Green groups weigh Measure M support

Mimi's Influence Cafe

Assemblywoman Mimi Walters (R-73, 241, 133) is a class act. And like any act, she can be yours if you can afford the hiring fee. Just ask Big Tobacco. Hell, just ask Rancho Mission Viejo; she's really going the extra mile for them. Sixteen miles actually—the length of the proposed Foothill-Sou ... More >>

Bates: Fishy

If only it were a smile contest... I thought the Transportation Corridor Agencies were getting desperate when I saw their ads on cable. But now it looks like they're going so far as to cobble together campaign mailers for supporters. I say this because Pat Bate's latest mailer, which uses TCA endor ... More >>

Not So Fast

The Transportation Corridor Agencies and their bizarro-roads keep you stuck in traffic

The Quota System (Friendly Skies Edition)

Everyone's heard stories, always officially denied, that you're more likely to get a traffic ticket near the end of month because the cops have a set quota of tickets they need to write each month. According to KMGH, the ABC affiliate in Denver, your traffic misery may be following you into the skie ... More >>

Shameless

Supervisor Wilson continues to portray himself as enviro-friendly, but thats a damn lie

35th Senate Race - A Road to Nowhere?

Diane Harkey and Tom Harman are both running for the 35th District Senate seat. Harkey is the Republican's Republican, toeing the party line in her Dana Pointed way, while Harman has the misfortune of being a from-all-appearances honest politician in Huntington Beach (unlikely enough) as well as a f ... More >>

New Poll Takes Its Toll

A public opinion survey released this fine Wednesday morning shows that 73% of Californians are opposed to extending a toll road through San Onofre State Beach. Last September, the Transportation Corridor Agencies commissioned their annual public opinion poll on how much we all love toll roads. The ... More >>

Hooray for OCTA?

Award for top transportation agency is astoundingfor all the wrong reasons

Next Stop: Immobility

An A to Z Guide to Surviving the Death/Pause/Sunshine of the CenterLine

Center Bind

Beth Krom embarrasses Centerline with radio fiasco

Kill the Cougar

Agency announces bold plan to wipe out dangerous mountain lions: toll roads

Fear Factor

The four horsemen of the suburban apocalypse

Track Record

A CenterLine contractors resume includes Bostons notorius big dig

They Have A Dream

Light rails friends and enemies rally around the bus. But do bureaucrats care?

Steven Hatfill's Big Idea

Perp Walks

Train in Vein

Jane Reifer lives for mass transit

Spin Recycle

Truth still grounded after El Toro approval

No News Is News

LA Hex

El Toro Airport Watch No. 140

Lie the Friendly Skies

El Toro Airport Watch No. 135

More Noise on Noise

El Toro Airport Watch No. 133

50 Reasons to Hate the Proposed El Toro International Airport

A River Runs Beneath It

Santa Ana River toll road elevates eco-fears

Highway Robbery - Toll Roads

OCs toll roads were supposed to be the model for our transportation future. Now they look like road kill

Derailed

OCTAs attempt to bring out the benefits of a $2 billion light-rail system crashes at UC Irvine

Letters

Why Weyrich?

Whats the moral majority founder know about trains in Orange County?

Disneyland Stops Here

Was the county ever serious about a two-airport system?

Crossing Guard

El Toro Airport Watch No. 95

The Year in the 24/7 Noise-Makin', Pollution-Spewin', Air-Tragedy-Waiting-to-Happen El Toro Internat