ROAD MAP TO MOTORISTS' RENEWED FREEDOM.Byline: Robert L. Rosebrock ONE hundred years ago, Henry Ford brought forth the automobile that would lead our great nation into unprecedented independence and prosperity. Over the years, driving a car gave Americans new freedoms and limitless opportunities to expand our horizons nationwide. Today, we are imprisoned im·pris·on tr.v. im·pris·oned, im·pris·on·ing, im·pris·ons To put in or as if in prison; confine. [Middle English emprisonen, from Old French emprisoner : en- in unthinkable 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. within a state that is mired mire n. 1. An area of wet, soggy, muddy ground; a bog. 2. Deep slimy soil or mud. 3. A disadvantageous or difficult condition or situation: the mire of poverty. v. down in inconceivable debt with no help in sight. Albert Einstein forewarned us that ``We cannot solve our problems with the same kind of thinking that created them.'' Accordingly, the California Department of Transportation The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) is a government agency in the U.S. state of California. Its mission is to improve mobility across the state. It manages the state highway system and is actively involved with public transportation systems in California. is a bureaucracy buried beneath layers of bureaucracy within the maze of the Business, Transportation and Housing Agency. Once sorted out and located, we find Caltrans feebly attempting to carry out its responsibilities through six separate divisions: Aeronautics, Highway Transportation, Mass Transportation, Transportation Planning Transportation planning is the field involved with the siting of transportation facilities (generally streets, highways, sidewalks, bike lanes and public transport lines). , Administration, and the Equipment Service Center. What we need is a new vision with modernistic goals backed up with serious checks and balances. Otherwise, we will eventually envy the speed and efficiency of pioneer settlers that traveled by horse and wagon. Proverbs Proverbs, book of the Bible. It is a collection of sayings, many of them moral maxims, in no special order. The teaching is of a practical nature; it does not dwell on the salvation-historical traditions of Israel, but is individual and universal based on the 29:18 warns us, ``Where there is no vision, the people perish.'' This renewed freedom can be accomplished through a ballot initiative that would separate the Highway Transportation Division from Caltrans and all the other layers of bureaucracy by forming an independent Highway Transportation Commission. Like the Insurance Commission, it would have an elected commissioner held accountable to the voters for the planning, building and maintaining of California's roadways to ensure the utmost in safety and mobility for our motorists. The highway commissioner's chief priority and responsibility will be to return California to its glory days as No. 1 in the nation for traffic efficiency, instead of last as we are today. Mohandas Gandhi suggested that ``All taxation to be healthy must return tenfold tenfold Adjective 1. having ten times as many or as much 2. composed of ten parts Adverb by ten times as many or as much Adj. 1. to the taxpayer in the form of necessary services.'' Consider that the U.S. Department of Transportation has found that every $1 spent on highway construction results in $5.70 in economic benefits because of reduced travel time, improved safety, reduced vehicle operating costs operating costs npl → gastos mpl operacionales due to smoother roads, reduced road maintenance costs and reduced vehicle emissions due to improved fuel efficiency. It's not a tenfold return, but certainly better than we are getting today. When John F. Kennedy "John Kennedy" and "JFK" redirect here. For other uses, see John Kennedy (disambiguation) and JFK (disambiguation). John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917–November 22, 1963), was the thirty-fifth President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in was president, he proposed the following advice to overcome the counterproductive factions within government: ``Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.'' |
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