EDITORIAL TRAFFIC REVOLUTION GRIDLOCK GETS STATE LEADERS THINKING MORE CREATIVELY.THERE'S a bright light for motorists stranded daily on gridlocked grid·lock n. 1. A traffic jam in which no vehicular movement is possible, especially one caused by the blockage of key intersections within a grid of streets. 2. freeways. And, oddly enough, that light is coming from Sacramento. Both Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger (German pronunciation (IPA): [ˈaɐ̯nɔlt ˈaloɪ̯s ˈʃvaɐ̯ʦənˌʔɛɡɐ] and key Democrats in the Legislature agree that the traffic is sufficiently terrible to consider ``revolutionary'' solutions, including public-private partnerships and even privatization privatization: see nationalization. privatization Transfer of government services or assets to the private sector. State-owned assets may be sold to private owners, or statutory restrictions on competition between privately and publicly owned . While those words immediately conjure up the failed experiment of Orange County's toll roads, they needn't. There's a lot more to joint partnerships than tolls. Besides, when it comes to traffic, the old ideas clearly aren't working. Every year the gridlock Gridlock A government, business or institution's inability to function at a normal level due either to complex or conflicting procedures within the administrative framework or to impending change in the business. gets worse and nothing is done to fix the crumbling freeway system. It's time to put everything on the table, and start making some revolutionary changes. |
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