🚘 Headlines About California Highways – April 2026

[cahwyguy]

A new month, and that means highway headlines for the old month. The good news is that I worked with Westhost and we fixed the "Verifying you are human" problem that impeded linking. So here are your headlines. Ready, set, discuss.

Here are the headlines: https://cahighways.org/wordpress/?p=17594

[Max Rockatansky]

I'm sure glad I got photos of the Lions Bridge when I had the chance.  That was a very unique span but it was being beat to shit.  I'm surprised it was even open which how low of a weight rating it had at the end.

[FredAkbar]

Is the I-15 expansion "project", or anything done by the Rebuild SoCal Partnership, real? The link is just a simple image (a rudimentary map of I-15) on that organization's FB page, and the corresponding website seems more like an online campaign than an actual project. It even has the stretches of traffic congestion cleverly disguised to look like the "Phase 1", "Phase 2" etc that you see on actual county-run project pages.

[Plutonic Panda]

Joe Linton, man every time I read what apparently streetsblog passes off as a news article from that guy I just prepare myself for the comedic bullshit. I'm about to see. It never fails. The big bad 6605 widening is back to destroy the planet and its environment. And it's gonna take everybody's homes. And all Metro does is widen highways and cater to car drivers and nobody else. Ugh.

[pderocco]

Joe Linton, man every time I read what apparently streetsblog passes off as a news article from that guy I just prepare myself for the comedic bullshit. I'm about to see. It never fails. The big bad 6605 widening is back to destroy the planet and its environment. And it's gonna take everybody's homes. And all Metro does is widen highways and cater to car drivers and nobody else. Ugh.

How many people are actually not car drivers? Outside of New York City, they're a pretty small minority.

[Plutonic Panda]

Joe Linton, man every time I read what apparently streetsblog passes off as a news article from that guy I just prepare myself for the comedic bullshit. I'm about to see. It never fails. The big bad 6605 widening is back to destroy the planet and its environment. And it's gonna take everybody's homes. And all Metro does is widen highways and cater to car drivers and nobody else. Ugh.

How many people are actually not car drivers? Outside of New York City, they're a pretty small minority.

I don't know, man this is a while ago, but I think it was in that sent me a pretty nasty email one time and then I know he blocked me on the street blog Los Angeles commenting section because I called someone anti-Car nut as they've said some pretty bad stuff to me just for making points about induced demand. Fuck that guy.

[Max Rockatansky]

Urbanists are pretty easy to ignore.  The rest of the world does, we as a hobby should too.

[pderocco]

Urbanists are pretty easy to ignore.  The rest of the world does, we as a hobby should too.

In some states, they have significant influence on government policy. You can't ignore that.

[Max Rockatansky]

Urbanists are pretty easy to ignore.  The rest of the world does, we as a hobby should too.

In some states, they have significant influence on government policy. You can't ignore that.

Some, but outside of San Francisco and some other highly urbanized places in California their influence is minimal.  Complete Streets is probably the closest thing they have on a state level that had some of their influence in it. 

[SeriesE]

For the I-605 project, I have sent in my support for the alternative with 12-ft lanes during the public hearing meeting a while ago.