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Unusually slow/heavy traffic along East Valley Road and down San Ysidro and Hot Springs.
Montecito Afternoon Traffic
Anonymous
September 17, 2021, 3:19 am
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It didn’t have to be this bad. The funding was set aside to widen the freeway years ago, but it never got done. North County had better leadership and was able to spend the funds to widen the bridge on the north end of Santa Maria. At least they are finally widening the freeway. Why does our freeway always have to be a couple decades behind?
Time for Montecito to pony up a 3rd lane….Oprah…Can you help?
Because some loud Montecito NIMBYs shot it down when the funding was available 30 years ago. It’s taken this long for it to come around again.
Those nice Montecito folks thirty years ago got to live out the rest of their lives without having to deal with freeway construction. Webster, another round please.
Correct, they were the 1st section to be completed, now they are the last. Perhaps had they not delayed, the creeks infrastructure that was supposed to be completed to support the 500 year floods, that feeds the downstream Caltrans project, may have saved many lives
Our State is a Third World Nation. The infrastructure we have, from freeways, county roads, state highways, reservoirs (or lack there of), water systems, above ground utilities and public transportation (lack there of) have all been stagnant for 50 years…Meanwhile the State’s population has tripled in size…. Go figure.
you can thank the good citizens of Montecito for fighting the freeway expansion…now they get to suffer gridlock in their community…can’t hide in that little bubble forever!
The other reason is the dang students are invading us to attend ucsb. It’s
Move in weekend in IV! All the mommy’s and daddy’s are bringing their kids into town for another year of partying. It was sooooo quiet when they were gone for the last 18 months….this is gonna suck having them back.
Give me a break, CoastWatch. Have you ever traveled to or in a “third world country”? I have, in Central America and Guatemala in the late 90’s.
Extreme statements like yours just turn me off from anything expressed from your point of view.
Our state is far from a third world! Except for the San Joquin Valley towns with no water.
And in the USA, the southern communities with no indoor plumbing and hookworm infestation, see Mississippi.
Let us, the United States of America, make the poorest areas of our states into first-world areas before any where else! There are counties in the south that have lacked sanitary sewer facilities for many decades. They’re often mobile home communities. Why are the conservatives who tout “America” not fighting for these poor people?!
I don’t have an ounce of sympathy for the people living in Montecito but boy I would not like to be them. Montecito is essentially locked in, or inaccessible for numerous hours per day and every holiday weekend and every Friday and Sunday. The maps apps have directed out of towners to previously unknown locals-only secret routes (like Greenwell Ave.) and so the entire place is clogged beyond belief. I would find it quite uncomfortable to feel trapped in my own home due to the traffic. They have plenty of other reasons to be grateful, however, so I do not pity them.
How about building high speed rail and commuter rail as civilized countries have done?
It has been observed that CW is never correct about anything.
From a guy who thinks that taking forests is a real thing …
Two choices: come here after you have secured the housing you want. Come here first and then demand someone give you the housing you want. Welcome to the former. Goodbye to the latter.
High speed rail is already being built Robert, only several billion dollars more and another 10 years or so and it will be up and running. I doubt UP will give up their trackage rights even if the feds could come up with enough money. I’ve been going to Costa Rica almost yearly for the last several years and their elevated commuter light rail is moving along nicely. They are of course civilized now since the abolition of their military.
The cons around here live in constant fear of their fellow man, and their main agenda is to spread fear and discontent by painting everything in a negative light. If we paid taxes at a reasonable rate, instead of the current historic lows, we wouldn’t have many of these problems, and yet the cons moan and groan for yet lower taxation. Insanity.
COAST – our state (which you are welcome and encouraged to leave if you want) is the 4th largest economy on the planet, it is by no measures a “Third World Nation.” Go check out Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi, etc for that. Seriously, enough with the overexaggerating.